Kindle Readers Ignite Protest Over E-Book Prices | Gadget Lab from Wired.com. I like my Kindle.  I've found the iPhone Kindle app to be quite useful, too.  I even got over the fact that if I want something on my Kindle that I already bought on paper, I'll have to buy it again. But I'm staunchly refusing to pay more than $9.99 for an e-book.  More accurately, I'll only buy an e-book if I can buy it for less than a paper version.  I bought a Terry Pratchett book for $6.39, which is $1.60 less than the paperback version.  Were it priced at $9.99, I'd not have done so. The thing that I dislike the most about Kindle books is that I can't lend them out to people, nor can they lend them to me.  Opposed as I am to DRM, this is not surprising, but you can get around this and keep DRM intact.  It seems to me it would be trivial for me to 'lend' my copy of a book to someone, during which time said book is not available on my kindle -- just like a paper book. Who knows how long this will last?  It took awhile for labels and major sellers of music downloads to see the light, maybe the publishers will learn from their mistakes.  But, then again, while Apple may be DRM-free for music, video is still *heavily* encumbered.