When digital publishing and DRM technologies will become mainstream and standardized enough, I guess that the industry will have to agree on an open standard fo

When digital publishing and DRM technologies will become mainstream and standardized enough, I guess that the industry will have to agree on an open standard for e-books - or risk that governments will impose one by law. The latter is what I think will - and in my opinion should - happen if Amazon and/or Apple ended up in a monopolistic/duopolistic position with their ebook/pad gadgets while keeping a strict control over what can be sold there. Which is probably what Amazon is trying to do, but in the long run I don't think that would be sustainable (either by market forces or government intervention). So for publishers the long term real issue is most likely to be how to add value as (mostly) digital publishers, but not how to survive against a monopoly.