Stilly River Sage:

While you may have "taught your children to feed their addiction to literature by reading books on paper", just haw many in the population are doing the same? I suspect fewer than we may realize.
I see the lure of relying on electronic sources increases with every new electronic product and with every generation. (There was a time when people purchased music at music stores, and did not download their music, sometimes even for free).

I work with a science organization, and we have a library. My observation is that the younger scientists lean towards electronic reading for their work and the library has few users.