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> An e-book is going to heavily (and negatively) impact the sales figures for the print book

What? Do you have a source on that claim?

For me, I only get ebooks for programming books because I can have the IDE side by side with the PDF, no need to continuously look at the physical book and then back into my IDE, and I can copy paste code examples.

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I prefer ebooks too. If I am really interested in the book, I buy the print version of the book though, if I cannot find an ebook version of high quality (that excludes many epubs, as formulas are typeset horribly in all of them; so a high-quality ebook is usually in PDF format). I am toying with the idea of sending these print books to somebody who (destructively?) scans them for me as PDFs.

For reading, I prefer my iPad Pro, although when looking at multiple books at the same time, I also put them up on one of my monitors.

totally agree re user experience with ide...

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