I'm pretty sure E-books will overwhelm real books.
The merits of E-books are obvious.
First, the simplest and biggest advantage, they are convenient. I don't know the exact number of books it can hold as data, but I'm sure it's capable of containing data of more than 10 books. We can't carry 10 books with us to read, but E-books enables that. Whenever we're done with a book or bored with the current one, we can switch books easily.
Second, they are environmentally friendly to the earth. E-books do not need paper and ink. This would save the trees from being cut down to produce paper for normal books. This will lessen the need of paper and might slow the speed of deforestation.
Third, if E-books replace paper books, printing factories will become completely useless and we can build parks or condominiums or something. I don't know how much land printing factories occupy, but there should be enough to build something much more useful.
I acknowledge many people love paper books and publishing companies will be desperate to stop the spread of E-books, but the majority tend to use convenient modern devices and put away thing that were used for ages.
