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I agree with astra_lestat. There are books I haven't been able to own because I can't afford them -- both fiction and non-fiction. Sometimes I can borrow them from a library or friend, and sometimes I just have to go without.
My primary motivation for getting into ebooks was simply space. I live in a smaller house than I used to, and I now have two kids who seem to need a lot of space of their own (whoda thought?) so I don't have enough room to shelve all my books anymore. They're in boxes in the basement, inaccessable, and I have to be careful about buying any more. But I tend to re-read many or most of my books, so I really value being able to store them all on a reader upstairs.
I also have notebooks with handwritten scrawls and sketches dating back through years that I wish I had the same access to. That's why I went with the iLiad, hoping that it could replace those as well. I'm still not quite there yet.
Most people probably don't want or need immediate access to a few thousand books at a time, though. It takes a reading nut (like me, or like many of the other people on this site) to want that kind of functionality. I think lower cost (which can be tracked to lower resource usage, hence a more environmentally-friendly format) will win the day in the long run-- if publishers have any sense.
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