Exactly that. It's all about a lobby wanting to secure the opportunity to skim money without any real performance of their own. Anyone who thinks that all these copyright and digital rights management debates are about the rights holders hasn't been paying attention.
The steps that the music industry and publishers have been taking recently to secure or expand their perks without having to adapt to reality or even respond to customer demands with their prices are truly unacceptable.
Or has no one noticed that, for example, with technical books the prices since the introduction of the euro correspond almost 1:1 to the old DM prices? That can hardly be normal price increases due to rising costs.
Combined with the problems that arise when trying to self-publish works (especially the difficulties that self-published works have in reaching normal retail channels), the behavior of the major publishers is really no longer acceptable.
And as a customer you have almost no way to do anything about it, since all the book and music publishers are nicely showing solidarity.
I found the original article at Telepolis News at this link.