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I also did not like having to wait months for the paperback version but since I usually had a big backlog it wasn't that much of a problem. Nowadays, the publishers are hurting themselves by not releasing the ebook with the hardback because they are definitely losing ebook sales. For example, I saw ebook versions of Under The Dome in the usual dark places within days of the hardback being released. It's obvious that not releasing the ebook doesn't affect the availability of it. I'm sure that some who download the darknet version buy the official ebook when it's available but many don't.
It's absurd to equate ebook buyers with former hardback buyers. In the pbook days I bought probably 100 paperbacks for every hardback. Nowadays it's ebooks all the way. Delaying ebook releases will only alienate me. There's too much other stuff to read now so by the time the ebook is released I'll be on to something else.
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