Publishers must absolutely fear the eBook. They must fear people will download it to their hard drives, or make copies...or put it on the Internet! Book publishing idiots must be first cousins to the Motion Picture idiots who want a broadcast flag, who treat consumers as idiots, and fear anything requiring them to be competitive and innovative. There's this little thing called DRM which for eBooks is fully supported in Microsoft Reader and I assume Adobe Acrobat, but that's not good enough, I guess.
I would love to spend more dollars on Microsoft Reader eBooks than I currently do for reading on my PocketPC, but there just isn't much out there. I just don't understand why its so hard to produce an electronic version of a book from an electronic version of a book?
This is how pitiful the ebook market is out there. If you go to the Amazon ebook area and view the top 100 best selling ebooks, at #80 we've got A Warrior's Will by Justus Roux. Now I don't want to besmirch Mr. Roux's talents, and I like a good Warrior Tale as much as the next guy, but come on. Of all the books in all the world, we've got A Warrior's Will at number 80???
