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Honestly, I don't see what is keeping publishers from supporting e-books, except for the "fear of piracy". P-books are formated on computers. It shouldn't be that hard to make a .pdf out of it. Of course that ties them with Adobe and they probably have to pay for it (or at least for teh accompanying drm), but whatever they choose is fine (it was the easiest way I could think of) as long as they all choose the same. E-reader will then update their software to read it or go down.
They could even make more profit as they could simply skip the retailer part (they would have to build a selling platform so some cost there). Seriously, what do you need a retailer for? If you don't need a place for people to physically buy the books...
The retailers though should be wary. Even if they start selling e-books through their websites, they would still have to deal with their task force if labor law doesn't allow them to lay people off unless they go bankrupt...
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