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Corporations who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat the failures of the past. It will be that way with publishers, they are slow to adapt and many customers won't put up with DRM.
You get the scenario where customers who WANT to buy the product cannot because it's not available or the drm is ridiculous (unable to share a book with a friend like they would a paper book), and they will turn towards the free version (pirated version) or buy a 2nd hand paper version later on. How many millions will the publishers lose?
It's not AS bad as the music industry was early this decade around napster time because ebooks have a better distribution mechanism than the music industry did though.
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