The book industry is gonna get Napstered if it forces Amazon to raise e-book prices. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine - 0 views
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Right now, the electronic-book market finds itself roughly in the same place the market for MP3s was in 1999, the year after the release of the first portable MP3 player.
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But that could change in a matter of months if the book industry insists on 1) jacking up the price of e-books and 2) withholding potential best-sellers from the e-book market.
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"Publishers are in denial about the economics of digital content,"
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