At what price?

Now that all speakers have been confirmed, and the conference almost a month away, there is plenty of time to ponder the issues at hand.    The internet is abuzz with opinionated articles and posts, this one from The Bookseller online:  Macmillan US and Amazon.com settle e-books dispute

Amazon has agreed to let Macmillan set their own prices in return for 30 %  of those sales.  The immediate arguement may have been settled, but the question of how to price e-books lingers.

Can people really be expected to pay the same for a digital product as they would for the print version?  And what exactly are they buying?    Author Cory Doctorow offers another viewpoint:  DRM advocates are “the real pirates”

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