[pshrynk]

There's a lot of fear on the part of everyone in the industry. The problem, as I understand it, is that we really do not have the foggiest idea of what will happen to literature in this brave new world of electronic writing.

Why write if you're not getting remunerated/

Why edit if someone is going to "steal" the product?

Why pay for something if you're just going to end up losing it when a media drops out of favor?

All the current schemes to keep this in tow are based on physical books that resemble the electronic books only in having the words in them in some form. What is needed is a real way of "selling" literature that keeps it durable, but can be used in perpetuity.