Here I sit, Friday night, and I am at Starbucks listening to the latest offering from Souther Rap Star - ‘Lil’ Wayne’. “Weezy” decided to shake up the “rap game” by releasing a Rock album. Now, it’s pretty good. I mean, I’m happy to listen to it, and I have - multiple times. It won’t win a Grammy or even have a chance at being nominated, but it entertains me, and that’s what counts. That’s what music is.

As I’m sure you’ve heard and seen, there is a lot of frustration regarding the iPad [Apple], the Kindle [Amazon], and the Publishers of the eBooks many of you read. If you don’t here is the lowdown (skip if you know what’s up) :

THE LOWDOWN: Basically Apple isn’t going to have a fixed price on the eBooks offered in it’s digital bookstore. This is completely contrary to Amazon (The #1 in eBook distributors) who restricts publishers to a sliding price chart which only allows publishers to sell at a maximum of 9.99 for a New Release / Bestseller. Long story short, the publishers are essentially threatening to leave Amazon if they don’t follow suit with Apple. Amazon, and Kindle users are in uproar.

So, with that in mind, and with the Lil’ Wayne metaphor let’s sit at a distance and evaluate this. Not from an eBook standpoint. Not from a music standpoint. After the jump let’s look a digital media as a whole.

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