Authors, Publishers and Ebooks

Waaah, waaah, waaah! Ebooks are tooo cheeeeep! We big publishers don't make enough money on them, waaaaah! We insisted on DRM because we're sure that all customers are really thieves, but wonder why the customer doesn't want to pay more than $10 for an ebook! It must be all that eeeeeevil Amazon's fault, blame them, waaaah!

Really, that's what I'm hearing, and it's disgusting. In a "free market" that all these publishers say they believe in, price is set by what people are willing to pay, not by what it allegedly costs.
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