The unsexy future of ebooks: they will probably play an important role as technical manuals, etc and all the other junk books you see at the thrift store and save paper/trouble/cost but probably won't replace the books that people read for pleasure (novels, poetry) except as an ancillary tool.
The internet's unsexy thing-that-must-not-be-uttered: the truth makes horrible clickbait.
@nolan
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/27/how-ebooks-lost-their-shine-kindles-look-clunky-unhip-
@rascalking To clarify (bc that wasn't super-clear) I'm not saying that ebooks aren't or won't be popular for fiction or poetry, more that it's not a zero-sum game where ebooks are either A) a fad, or B) the thing that replaces paper books. Instead, both technologies will likely coexist and thrive in parallel.
Rather than cds/mp3s, the more apt metaphor might be recorded music/live music.
Part of that is that we are seeing and will likely continue to see a "resurgence" of paper.
@paulsheprow i've got a very large calibre library full of sff that says otherwise.