I think publishers have good reasons to maintain the prices of printed books. It is just a mater of differentiating their product from the common kindle ebook sold on Amazon. In fact, my experience (as the experience of many others) as that the average self-published kindle ebook is a very low quality product. What is crazy is that Amazon wants publishers to price their product similarly to these low quality &quot;books&quot; just because they happen to share the same distribution model. I think this doesn&#x27;t make any sense and it would be a race to the bottom for everyone involved.