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I voted "other." In what follows, I'm talking about buying fiction; eBooks have not yet invaded my non-fiction purchases (especially professional reading), because the formatting, displays, and UIs are not good enough for seriously non-linear use of the books. For fiction, on the other hand...
Before eBooks, I used to buy a few new hardcovers -- only new books from my very most beloved authors. For everything else I waited for the paperback, checked it out from the library, or bought it used. I bought roughly one hardcover a month, and a dozen or so paperbacks.
Since eBooks, I still buy about the same number of hardcovers for exactly the same reasons. I prefer buying eBooks ahead of paperback, however, and would gladly stop buying them. In fact, eBooks have entirely supplanted my purchasing of paperbacks from Baen (who wind up making more money from my eBook sales anyway!). I buy paperbacks only when the eBook is either unavailable, available at a totally unreasonable price -- that is it costs as much as the paperback or more -- or when the eBook comes with DRM that I cannot remove.
I've also tripled my spending on books. All of the extra money is spent on eBooks, not paperbacks. Note that I happily purchase the eBook of as well as the hardcover for those few hardcover purchases -- hardcover for keeping and reading at home, ebook for all the rest.
For me, the net effect of the move to delay the e-versions is simply to delay my purchase of the book (always assuming that I still remember to buy it four months later, that is). It certainly WILL NOT cause me to buy a hardcover that I would otherwise not have purchased. So they won't get more money from me, what they do get will come later, and they risk my forgetting to buy the ebook at all because I've forgotten that I ever wanted it. Not a good way to get a share of my book-buying budget.
As always, your mileage may vary.
Xenophon
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