Audiobooks, e-Books: more popular than physical book?

Ever since I was young, I loved to read books.  All kinds of books, but mostly mystery and horror books.  I have more books than I know what to do with!  But, as a college student for the past five years, I do not have the luxury of picking up a good book, let alone a book series, I have adopted listening to audiobooks.  The public library has many audiobooks to choose  from and I can do one of two things with the CDs.  For long drives, I can take the CD and put it into the CD player.  Although, one of our vehicles is a really small Mini Austin and you can feel every bump in the road.  Needless to say, CDs (even the radio) skip... a LOT.  So, the second thing I do with audiobooks is to download them to iTunes and sync to my iPhone.  This way, I can play it, put it on my lap in our Mini Austin and still listen without it skipping.  Also, when donating plasma for 1.5 hours, I can get through more than one CDs worth of audio in that time (and when I finished my 18-CD audiobook I felt pretty proud!) It still seems like a long time listening to audiobooks,  but I would be much slower at physically taking the book back and forth and reading it when I had a chance.  This way, I always have my phone with me and my earphones are much more portable than heavy, 3" books like Stephen King.  

The New York Times website (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/technology/personaltech/24pogue.html?_r=1) has an article called: The Kindle: Good Before, Better  Now.  It talks about the new e-Book reader and many benefits of it including no glare screen, less battery use than a laptop or iPhone.  Therefore, you do not need to worry about turning it off before going to bed, as they say.  Also one major benefit is the wireless connection through Sprint.  It's always on even when there's no Wi-Fi in sight.  There are some downfalls, and the major one seems to be the lack of bestselling books like the Harry Potter series, An Inconvenient Truth, The Associate, and anything by John Grisham.  So, there are 240,000 books available (between $3 to $10), 30 newspapers (~$15/month), magazines ($3/month), and blogs (~$2/month).  

So, they say that e-books and e-Readers will not make physical  books obsolete, but they will have their respectable places in accomplishing their innovator's purposes.