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I believe authors who resist ebooks already lost. There is *no* way to protect your book against online piracy. You demand DRM? It gets cracked, and it needs only *one* online source on Earth and everyone with internet - which is practicaly anyone who want ebooks - can read it, if he/she knows the language. OK, so we will forget ebooks at all, there will be no ebooks, demand these authors... we all know what happens every time, someone simply scan the physical book and release it. There is *no* way you can prevent scanning pbooks - it has to be readable, you can't encode it, you can't do anything to prevent people from scanning it. In the end, it only means more money lost, because you don't get any money from "your" ebooks. If you are denying supply, someone will do it, for free. The only thing you get is terrible publicity and "I hate you" mails (or emails, if you evolved enough to have one).
Personaly, I think Rowling is one of the worst examples how authors can behave.
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