The NYT's Motoko Rich does some e-book accounting and finds that e-books may make money for publishers, but not enough! Per copy, they will make "$4.56 to $5.54, before paying overhead costs or writing off unearned advances." But they are also afraid that e-books will erode the audience for paperbacks, and so publishers are freaking out, but quietly, because it doesn't seem like she could actually find any to quote on the record. (Instead she gets a guy who's a "consultant to publishers," who thinks publishers should "slow down the movement to e-books," and Lindy Hess, the head of the Columbia Publishing Course, who would of course like [...]