The popularity of the Kindle has jumpstarted in books what's been happening in music and video for a long while now: copyright violations and circumvention of DRM. The complaints voiced by authors and publishers sound awfully familiar, and they need to realize that they can either be on the bus or under it: et-books simply aren't going to fetch the same prices and physical ones, and DRM just torques off the people who paid good money for your stuff. If I have a version of a book on my Mac, why can't I also push it to a different Mac, a Windows box, my iPhone (etc, etc)?

As with music, there are things people will pay for if you make it convenient enough. Make it painful, and they won't.

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