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ebooks is already slang enough, is it not? It doesn't extend to nuance of magazines or other diverse media the way "e-reading" does, but it serves the pragmatic function more than adequately with far simpler phonological structure than almost all the more contrived terms that have been proposed. It also boasts broad acceptance as a loan term outside English, as well as establishment within both technical and nontechnical English fields.
Pretty much all of the forced attempts at new nomenclature for differentiated reading that we've seen here do nothing but highlight an individual's (or various individuals') desire to coin a phrase. It's not derived in a naturalistic sense, but rather one of contrived wit. It does not help that the logics behind such word choices yield no benefit to any social group. The paradigm shift just isn't substantial enough to demand it.
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