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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 1824433" data-attributes="member: 2810">Find the people that founded startups based on e-books and ask them where the market is going.  Start at your local soup kitchen.It will happen, no doubt.  But there are serious technological hurdles that have to be overcome, and so far haven't.  We're at least 10 years away from e-books even being common, and a lot more before they are ubiquitous.  There's a lot of time yet for small publishers to make a living in the print world, or lose their shirts in the e-world.And technological hurdles aside, there are legal and commercial realities.  Some sort of consumer friendly DRM has to be worked out, for one thing, and that takes cooperation amongst a lot of folks.  A format will have to be agreed on, international legalities hammered out.  Just today there was an article on /. about the US and Australia wrangling over the Project Gutenberg and 'Gone with the Wind', since the copyright has expired down under and not here.Rampant piracy will make the content makers curl up in a little ball and refuse to play, and it will take a lot of nibbling away at their consumer base by the little guys before they will come back out and play.Mindless obeisance to our corporate overlords isn't the answer, but this 'information wants to be free' crap isn't either.</blockquote>