Despite a very good article in the Wall Street Journal, most commentators struggle to find their way in the recent announcements regarding a possible antitrust action against 5 publishers and Apple. The difficulty lies in identifying the bad guys. On the other side, one finds Amazon, which, with its Kindle, its dominant share of the eBook market and its vertical integration including a distribution platform and now a publishing activity, is not exactly an angel. Stop searching: they are all bad guys, in particular when reader rights and author income are at stake. The only way to understand anything is to go back to basics. The bright future of eBooks raises two essential questions: * Which rights and capabilities will exist for readers, and in particular how will they be able to share digital books between themselves without aim of profit, an activity that plays so important a role in the sociology of reading and the dissemination of the written culture? * Which synergy will exist between the eBook economy, the above-mentioned non-market sharing and the paper book economy? ... More at: http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=4351&lang=en version française: http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=4331