We Deserve "Cheap," Don't We?

One thing that the Macmillan-Amazon debacle highlighted is, to me, a very disturbing aspect of American society -- the idea that everyone has a right to everything cheaply, and that if a copy of something can be made inexpensively -- or for almost nothing -- then that's everyone's right. Thankfully, not everyone, and perhaps not even a majority of Americans believes that, but millions clearly do. The reaction of the ten-dollar-or-cheaper e-book demanders is merely the latest manifestation...