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It may very well be that in the future less people actually will make a living by being creative.
And this is definitely not about talent. It's about writing, singing, playing, drawing the right stuff at the right time for the right audience. If your work will find an audience large enough, enough of the comsumers will acutally buy "something" which is related to your work.
This may either be a book or a CD or a concert ticket or a merchandise like a mug or T-shirt. Or anything else.
Just expect this to be a tough competition. One choice is to find a job as close as possible to what you would like to do. And hope you earn enough money with it. In the spare time create that what you actually want to create.
Right now I'm earning my money by writing short adventure stories for browser game rpgs.
My name will never be linked to that work, my name won't appear on any front cover of a paperback. But I'm still writing, and I try to use my free time as effectively as possible for my private projects. If one of them becomes a success some day, fine. If not I still do what I basically want to do.
Back to the basic consideration. If digital products will cause a decline in the "market value" of creativity, first the creative minds will leave, then the digital products will vanish. And then the creative minds will return. Hardly anybody actually needs digital products (besides handicapped people maybe). You may read a book, listen to a CD, buy a DVD, go to a concert. You don't really need their digital/downloadable counterparts.
I've been into eBooks since 1999, and I noticed two or three years ago that I regained my interests in printed books, also in old vinyl records or actually going to a concert. For me it seems, as convenient as digital products are, they somehow leave a gap; they are not as satisfactory as I would like them to be.
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