Of e-books, business models and Eliot Spitzer’s hookers

Commentary at Teleread:

Could a few details of the Eliot Spitzer hooker scandal be of interest to e-bookers? Actually yes, and in a very staid way—in terms of business models.

“What does someone like Spitzer get when he pays a prostitute $5,000, as opposed to $500 or $50?” the Washington Post’s Shankar Vedantam asks. “Could sex with one prostitute really be 10 times better or 100 times better than sex with another?”