Awesome post! It'll be interesting to see how the publishing world will evolve around this. So far, I'm not hopeful they get it, as they seem to take their cues from the music and movie publishers. Whereas, for the points you made, 1 download = 1 lost sale goes even less for books than for songs or movies (where it's a load of rubbish to begin with).
When I got my reader, I decided beforehand that while I'm perfectly willing to pay for ebooks, I only will do so if the price is less than a paper copy (come on, people, be real!), and doesn't include DRM. I just don't want to deal with the crap.
So far, I haven't even found the need to buy, there is SO MUCH free stuff that's worth exploring (and can be so easily explored now!), and then there's all that fanfiction.... I've read stories on my eReader that I never would have online, because it's so much more convenient and pleasant to read in eInk wherever I like, instead of on a backlit screen on a computer at a desk (or at best, on the laptop).
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When I got my reader, I decided beforehand that while I'm perfectly willing to pay for ebooks, I only will do so if the price is less than a paper copy (come on, people, be real!), and doesn't include DRM. I just don't want to deal with the crap.
So far, I haven't even found the need to buy, there is SO MUCH free stuff that's worth exploring (and can be so easily explored now!), and then there's all that fanfiction.... I've read stories on my eReader that I never would have online, because it's so much more convenient and pleasant to read in eInk wherever I like, instead of on a backlit screen on a computer at a desk (or at best, on the laptop).