Bibliophiles defending their dying media format are merely pawns of book industry PR which tries to elevate books into an intellectual art form.
They think the book is some sacred vestige of past intellectual civilization, while in reality its a poor data container that
has outgrown its usefulness in a digital age, like vinyl music "analog sound".
Books are inferior to e-books, which are inferior in turn to free hypertext. The resources required to create a physical book dwarfs file production costs by many orders of magnitude, its incredibly wasteful format for storing and distributing data.
E-books are attempt by old media companies to black box the
data into a format that is crippled by DRM and ensure profits from 'intellectual majority' of 'book readers' who have to purchase such 'book files' that are limited in functionality to viewing content through a digital straw(denying copying).