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Ekaser, you're right with the question of what we define as niche... and of course, we're all in that tiny minority who read *lots* as opposed to the sports pages and the packaged-for-the-short-of-attention web news pages, blogs, and (gawd help us) twitters.
So perhaps the question might be not 'will eink be supplanted by xxx technology?' but 'what will be the technology on the bulk of hand-held devices?' You are almost certainly correct that the majority of tablet-style devices will be high-speed refresh displays in full colour, and probably backlit... but those tablets are likely to be massively multi-functional devices; probably equivalent to a laptop with the screen on the outside. And it's likely that those will be used for reading ebooks.
But that will not be the primary use for them.
I strongly suspect that there will be stand-alone book readers, and displaying books is either all they will do, or will be their primary function... and that they will have a display compromised in some way but which still offers a good *reading* experience.
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