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eBooks are terrible because publishers treat them as 2nd class citizens while simultaneously pricing them higher than the paper versions. I still run into things like random hyphens mid-line, typos created from OCR etc. in purchased eBooks from big publishers. Plus we get draconian DRM that serves no purpose but to punish me as the customer for actually paying even though somebody with a knife, a decent feeder scanner and a copy of the paper book and some free software can make an ebook almost as good as what they sell in a half hour with zero limitations.
The two big eReader companies have pretty much decided that 2012 was the pinnacle of eReader hardware so we get incredibly incremental devices with no real hardware improvements that could enable things like better PDF reading, faster search, etc. They are more concerned with keeping you trapped on their store and less concerned with actually improving the reading experience.
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