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Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.