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This is going to hurt authors even more then the Amazon model, as it drives people to pirate books. When people feel they are being ripped off, right or wrong, its easy to steal something and say "they asked for it". Personally I feel that e-readers are already over-priced, then to go and raise the prices of ebooks? No thanks. The most I will pay for an e-book is around $10 and only if that book is not available cheaper in print. Yes, yes, I know the publishers don't make anything on e-reader sales but it doesn't change the fact that if I spend $300 on a device I expect to save significant money on my books. I wonder what pricing would be like it Macmillan was selling it's own e-reader?
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