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Regarding the points made in previous posts, my take is that in the current book business model, publishers have all the reasons to slow things down with unacceptable high prices and oneorus drm. The margins on digital content are simply not there as opposed to the margins on physical content, but in other industries (music, movies), the product being already digitized, the corresponding industry had to react sooner (music with mp3's and Napster) or later (video when high speed internet being more and more widespread removes the main bottleneck for distribution online, whether legal or not).
For books I expect the same pattern, when widespread digitization (Google, cheap scanners, whatever...) will be available, the industry will react in a more acceptable way.
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