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The thing that strikes me about some ebook pricing is that it does seem like they are actively trying to discourage people from buying them, it is completely demented for the publishers to try and charge hardback prices for ebooks as it just encourages people to look elsewhere for them.
I don't expect prices to be as low as some people are mentioning in this thread, I think I would consider prices to be reasonably fair if they were below paperback prices for books in paperback and somewhere just above paperback prices for books that were still in hardback.
As far as drm and ebooks, while I would obvioudly prefer my books to be without drm, I don't actually mind the idea of drm if the publishers go about it in a reasonable manner e.g. I would be happy to have an ebook locked to my current reader if at a later date I could lock it to a different reader even if that one used a different format i.e. I am buying an ebook not just the right to use one for as long as that first reader lasted.
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