Most eBook devices do not scroll up and down. They are set up to exactly mimic how a book works. AND you can read one handed and easily turn the page with your thumb.
eBooks are going to take over the market in the very near future and the basic reason is it literally costs nothing to produce an ebook wherein it is very expensive to create a physical book out of dead trees.
I love my physical books and have en extensive collection of very expensive first edition (not to be confused with first printings) leather bound and signed by the author scifi novels. The have gilt edging, archival quality paper, silk bookmarks sewn-in and certificates of authenticity that validate the author's signature AND show which numbered copy I own of a limited printing and most now are worth 100 bucks or more. AND everyone of them are also on my Kindle cloud because I do most of my reading on the go (in the car, at the doctor's office, outside in my emergency mobile zombiepocalypse garden, etc.)
Physical books will soon be like drive-in movie theaters. There will still be some around but they will be a novelty OR a high-end luxury item like the ones I described above. Not because one is better than the other but because eBooks can be created with a few mouse clicks after they are written and edited. Used to be it took months even years to get a book in print AFTER it was written and edited. Now its takes literally seconds. That alone changes the publishing paradigm add in the fact anyone can upload their book to Amazon or iTunes bookstore etc. without begging some publishing company to do it for them and get paid for doing so and anyone can see Dead Tree Media is gonna take it's place next to 8-track tapes and Sony Betamax movie tapes.
I have not yet written my Great American Novel, or published anything, actually. Based on what you said about the trending and eventual dominance of ebooks, we will have to wait and see. It this trends to completion, I would be concerned about getting paid for my work.
Popular music is going through an economic shakeup, in that, so many people expect to get MUSIC FOR FREE ONLINE, as they have grown up with. What is a musician to do? Just yesterday, I heard that the 80’s group U2,a group that is still quite popular, released a new album online, and for free. They expect to make their money via tours and fan merchandise online. Many retail outlets like Target are furious, because the bait of a new U2 CD or DVD could have attracted customers into their physical stores. That’s how its been done since printed music books were sold. Some of the biggest acts can do this. Madonna and Prince have both given away albums to select fan groups.
I forgot about the page turning feature ... my pastor showed me his and I was impressed.
I am with Mad Dawgg. The advantages to my ebooks are numerous.
I don’t have to carry a book. I can access it on my phone, my computer, my tablet, from any location, and when I open the book, it is right where I left off.
I can footnote and find locations with a search function.
I still buy paper books from time to time - find a good sale on something, impulse purchase.
But I am probably purchasing 20-30 ebooks for every paper book.