The other issue surrounding electronic publishing besides the cost is the DRM issue. I should be able to transfer electronic books between devices without rest

The other issue surrounding electronic publishing besides the cost is the DRM issue. I should be able to transfer electronic books between devices without restriction and without the possibility for some remote company or organisation to delete purchased content from my reader. I imagine that book publishers will eventually become what iTunes is to music, but like the music industry they may have to go through a painful period of denial, loss of old business models and restructuring. Google are also paving the way for the future of publishing with their books service. It seems likely that before long in addition to merely previewing a few chapters on Google there will also be some convenient mechanism to purchase and download the entire book to a reader device.