While I would agree that Alice for the iPad looks great, it’s hard to imagine paper books of any kind going the way of the dodo. Jason Kottke doesn’t think so either, and especially not those of the children’s variety.
However, I’d like to assure the childless Rose that if paper books ever go extinct (they won’t), paper children’s books will be the last to go, particularly among the pre-K crowd. E-books are “broken” in several ways that are important to kids, not the least of which is that paper books are super useful as floors in really tall block buildings.