Why Publishers Should Give Away eBooks

I like the case Nicholas Carr makes here: why publishers should give away eBooks. My family, even the kids, like paper books, so that’s what we buy, but it would be awfully nice to have copies of the books I buy for the bedside table on my phone too so I could grab a few pages here and there (but not nice enough to buy them twice, which is why we have no eBooks here). So what’s the incentive for publishers to let me get more while paying the same price? With more opportunities to read a page or two on the road, I will get through books faster, and therefore buy more. Plus all the arguments Carr makes in his piece.