[EponymousCoward]

This guy is seriously misunderstanding the long tail. First of all the long tail is an opportunity, not something that "dies" (his words). It's an opportunity for authors because what authors have today is the opportunity to self publish and instantly receive global distribution and in the case of say Amazon sit on a store shelf that has millions of visitors a day. On top of that, they take 70% of the books retail price.

So all this and he's going to cry about the price point dropping?

For the record my book buying rate has probably gone up 10x since Kindle, partly due to price partly due to convenience.