I thought this was an excellent and informative article overall, and I realize that your quote from Laura Miller was only a small side-point, but still I feel compelled to comment on it: There is no data or compelling argument to support the notion that "Consumers who demand that the price of e-books be slashed to less than half the hardcover list price reveal a belief that the work and expertise of a writer are worth less than a handful of paper and cardboard." In the first place, with any mass produced product, there is always a disconnect between the market price of a unit and the perceived worth of the artist who created the original of that product. And secondly, consumers who want lower prices for e-books are more likely to simply be aware that they're buying something whose per-unit production cost is essentially zero, as compared to the high production cost of a hardcover book. They may also be aware that publishers are happily pocketing the savings from that difference, rather than passing it along to authors.