The publishers want to keep ebook prices high to keep them from eating into their traditional print business, just as Kodak kept their digital camera prices high to keep them from eating into their traditional film business.<p>The problem is that the publishers aren&#x27;t the only people who can produce ebooks, just as Kodak wasn&#x27;t the only company that could produce digital cameras.<p>This is going to bite them in the butt in the long run.