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This is insane. Maybe those publishers should give a call to the RIAA and see how well the heavy-handed approach to music distribution worked for them.
I'm a returning college student who is switching careers and like the idea of purchasing and reading e-books instead of hardcover and paperback offerings. I can't begin to say how invaluable the search feature for books is. I never forget a story, but I can't always exactly remember where a specific scene or quote was. I'm also not a fan of highlighting as I read, it ruins the experience as far as I'm concerned. But I digress...
Like others have said, I don't buy hardcover. I'm working towards an MA in English, so most of my required texts are either classics (probably free) or used paperbacks that I can get through Amazon and other assorted sites for dirt cheap.
I'll suffer through reading a public domain classic on my iPhone rather than be gouged for a hardcover or overpriced paperback. I just picked up Flannery O'Connor's The Complete Stories today. 350 pages of thick paperback. I would have loved to get it for an e-reader, but it isn't available.
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