Print books aren't going to die. They will decline in popularity and eventually become a niche market. Very few popular technologies (and print was bleeding edge tech in its day) just die out completely. I have a huge pet peeve with this "death of ___" / "X kills Y" literal disease people seem to have these days. Think about what you're saying and you'll realize it's actually a very silly way to phrase what is otherwise a good point. It draws in the casual reader with drama but it probably makes a lot of people dismiss you as being naive.
People will continue to read printed books for a long time, just as some people still watch movies on VHS. But the printed book will be "dead" in a few short years in the sense that the bulk of the adoption curve, the pragmatic majority, will have moved on.
When, to get a book printed, you'll have to take the assumably digital-only copy to a single-copy press, it'll be very similar to converting CDs to vinyl. I just wonder who the commercial market will be, as DJs are for vinyl?
Probably the folks who use bookshelves as physical proof they are super smart and deep. Hiding it all away on a tiny e-book reader wouldn't serve their purpose.
Some people show off vacation photos all over their houses. Even then, though, you don't usually get a good sampling of that person's travels by the few pictures they chose, and had space, to present. I opted instead for having one poster-sized digital pictureframe (well, okay, it's a screen inset in the wall with a hidden PC, but the interface is the same), which shuffles through all the photos—a much better sampling, and you eventually see everything if you watch long enough, without having to hunt down the scapbooks in the attic. Having said this, I wouldn't be surprised if there were an analogous device for ebooks—perhaps a touchscreen marqueeing a steady stream of your favorite quotes from each book, each of which displays the appropriate cover and either pushes the book itself via Bluetooth, or begins dictation from the audiobook version.
