after years of hearing that long books cost almost as much to produce and distribute as they sell for (remember what happened with AFfC?), I fail to see why publishers aren't embracing ebooks as a way to slash their costs. It seems like we should be able to have cheaper books (leading to increased volume), higher author royalties, and higher publisher profit all at the same time. Exactly who gets how much of this benefit would need to be worked out, but how much can it cost to get an ebook to the reader compared to a physical book? This whole ebook situation just makes publishers seem riduclously greedy to me. I'm a pharmacist, and if I could pay once to stock a drug indefinitely, it would definitely cost my patients a lot less and I would make a lot more selling it.