I`ve been bitching about ebooks for years.  The current business model for electronic books is akin to what the music business model was about 10 years ago, and the publishing industry is refusing to learn lessons of the past.  Cory Ondrejka, the co-founder of Second Life, pretty much summed up what I`ve been saying for the past 3 years - http://ondrejka.net/stupid/2010/06/27/1244-doomed-to-repeat.html