Until they make an e-book you can throw at your virtual cat and see it hit it when it scratches your virtual painting in your virtual living room on your Google Glasses in 3D, paperbacks will continue to rule.

Now who the heck put that virtual poinsetta plant there!

Increases steadily but will top off at 65-70% of the market. But that won't happen for years.

If readers are like me, you loaded up on tens of cheap $3.99 ebooks that you really, really want to read and you finally reached the stage where you have to look at the screen and read them.

Call me back when e-books do a good job at rendering complicated equations, charts, and diagrams. That's most of what I read.

Get a Nook Touch for 75$, root it with Nooter, slap in a 32 gig MicroSDHC card for 25$ and download Moon+ Reader (4$?) and you will quite literally have a library in the palm of your hands. Moon+ will let you tap into electronic libraries like Gutenberg Project, but its like downloading off a dial up modem. Pirate Bay is so much faster.

damn i wanted a vote option which allowed:

O E-book sales will maintain their exact unwavering market share that they currently have for the foreseeable future.

('twould be the Paul Constant response)

I still have hundreds of dead-tree books I want to read. Once in a while I buy a new one. I borrow lots more from the library. From my perspective e-readers are a solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist.

E-Book prices are hitting their market resistance point. People can't understand why a string of bits should cost $12-$14 compared to a new HC that only costs $15 -- and you actually OWN the hardcover and can loan it to a friend, sell it on or gift it to charity, while you're only RENTING the E-Book, and barely have enough rights to actually read the damn thing.

Daddy Todd has it. The eBook will stairstep to the next plateau when the prices come down.

@9, exactly on point. I am one of those people.

I've given up reading paper books; they're so hard to hold on to. Curling up with my iPad is much more rewarding than juggling a book.