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Perhaps, but it's a long stretch from to go from some high ranked people in a few very specific companies committing fraud to the implied no companies can be trusted and thus will not permit DRM free e-books without governmental intervention. To get back to the point of the thread, the mere fact that the record companies caved on the DRM with regards to iTunes, the last major bastion of DRM protected music, proves that governmental intervention is not required.
It appears to me that the basic reason that the record companies caved was the reward of DRM free music final reached a point where it out weighted the risk of DRM free music (i.e. piracy) and the reward of DRM'ed music (control of product and bundling of music into albums). The question in my mind is how long will it take to reach that tipping point with books.
Right now, information seems to be scarce on the ground on what the market is. That is to say, how many e-books have been sold, verse how many books have been sold. We do know that the Kindle has been a top saler for Amazon which would at least imply to me that they also sale quite a few e-books.
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