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E-book Price Increase May Stir Readers’ Passions

In the battle over the pricing of electronic books, publishers appear to have won the first round. The price of many new releases and best sellers is about to go up, to as much as $14.99 from $ 9.99.
But there may be an insurgency(暴动)waiting to jump: e-book buyers.
Over the last year, the eagerest readers of e-books have shown a reflexive hostility to prices higher than the $ 9.99 set by online retailers for popular titles.
When digital editions have cost more, or have been delayed until after the release of hardcover versions, these unpleasant readers have organized boycotts at once and gone to the websites to leave one-star ratings and negative comments for those books and their authors.
"This book has been on the shelves for three weeks and is already in the remainder bins," wrote Wayne Fogel of The Villages, Fla., when he left a one-star review of Cathe
A. It would replace other types of reading.
B. It would be more popular than ever.
C. It would depend on the computer industry.
D. It would vary from one nation to another.