I don't think this is google's fault. I think it is still too hard to turn a book into an ebook. Google did a fine job of digitizing a bunch of library title,

I don't think this is google's fault. I think it is still too hard to turn a book into an ebook. Google did a fine job of digitizing a bunch of library title, but that wont do it. They have to share a spread that technology (make it cheap). I want to put my books into a backpack, go to a store nearby and pick my books up the next day together with the ebooks. In germany that would not be against the law, because it's a private copy. Maybe for 10 bucks per book (1Cent/page?). That would jumpstart the whole ebook thing in europe ... finally. This is my naive consumer perspective, not a publisher perspective.