[harryE123]

Well, I never said this was anything but my opinion.

Yes I firmly believe that an ebook copy should be given with every paperback too, it costs close to nothing extra. Even if pbook prices rise by a % I think they should ALL include a cross platform ebook version too by default.

I want to continue buying my paper books and have a physical library, yet I also want the right to read a few pages or take a few of them with me on an ebook reader without having the bulk for the occasional trip. Should I pay almost twice for that? Of course I and others shouldn't. The status quo as is, is unacceptable.

And this is not self corrective by the market, that's a long gone myth.

I am sincerely sorry for authors losing profits, but most lesser known authors do not have their copyrights violated on the web. In any case this is a certain radical stance that will possibly show publishers that whatever they do unless they start offering a fair product, which is to say a slightly higher price for ebook+pbook combos over ebooks, better cross platform standards (no more of that pdf garbage), open non drm books (that is questionable even to me too so far), they will face the radicalism that the web affords. Do they want to be like the music industry that was too late to notice this and has hemorrhaged profits every since (and hadn't it been for apple they be shooting themselves on the foot), or do they want to wizen up?

They don't seem like they do. Shame.

Of course you understand I am referring to physical libraries. These are irreplaceable to me. The sense of owning own, having friends and relatives browse it over a cup of coffee, making a reading room where you read surrounded by your books, and you can get up and move about the physically browse it outside of that perennial screen we have in front of us...handing out a book, the tactile sense of the book, the dog eared pages, the inscribed note etc. etc. are all irreplaceable to me. More so than for music. But even with music I miss that physical item a lot as well, vinyl in particular.