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I see every indication that e-book sales will continue to increase in popularity, at least to achieve parity with printed books (in certain categories, anyway ... if you exclude children's books and some picture books and the like). There are just too many advantages (including lower cost) to e-books, and too many people have used them and are hooked on them and prefer them to paper books. And the newer generations will read more and more in electronic form and less and less in paper, so the numbers should continue to move in the e-book direction, even if they reach a certain plateau and then increase slowly over time from there.
The only way I think any of that does NOT happen is if large publishers succeed in killing e-book sales (with higher prices, restrictive DRM, blocking TTS, delayed releases, poor formatting, agency model, etc.). But I think the cat has been let out of the bag. Too many of us read on too many e-book reading devices and too many big companies (like Amazon, B&N, Sony, and Apple) are on board the e-book train for publishers to stop it.
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