Don't hold your breath, Doug, at least for anything from authors who make their living from writing and use services of professional editors and such. For me, the price close to that of mass market paperback is already good enough. I have recouped the price of Kindle through free classics and an occasional cheap indie I would not be able to read otherwise.


Software is not priced in relation to what costs to press a CD, but what costs to write and test it. The same holds for books. Now, like there is open source and other free software, there are free and almost free books, but, as there is no "support" or "maintenance" for a novel, professional authors have no choice but to charge for their work when the book is sold.