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i agree that nook and kindle will be replaced, but likely by newer versions or some superrival that comes out and trumps them both. i think people think you were implying the eReader market will die out and be replaced by tablets, and to me that is ridiculous because tablets are a $800-$1000 premium category, and anyone who buys one is not buying them to build a digital book collection.
eReaders are going to have their place much like mp3 players still have a place even though in this day and age you have things like the iphone and other smartphones everywhere. If prices drop to less than $200 next year, then you will see even more of them in consumer hands. Apple's $800 tablet is not going to replace them. It may be nice technology, but it doesn't have practical uses yet. You can play iphone/ipod games and surf cool touch-based websites (like that ikea demonstration), but what do you really need it for? It'll be a nice toy for technophiles, but it won't replace anything. eReaders replace reading real books. The tablets have yet to demonstrate what they will replace.
also, having both an ereader and a digital ebook collection on my computer, i can easily say that reading e-ink is way more preferred to reading on a regular LCD. consumers who are just interested in book reading are not going to opt for the more expensive tablet over the cheaper e-ink experience.
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