I'd love to be able to buy e-books via Lightning. Not only convenient for me, but the author could directly get full price for their book without any middlemen.

e-books can already be sent to an Amazon Kindle simply by emailing the file to a special e-mail address associated with that device. Yes, I know we don't want Amazon to see what we're reading, but I'm just saying that we can bootstrap on that.

Eventually, we'd like to have some open hardware options, where we can have a non-KYC e-book reader that can connect to a variety of e-book stores and buy the books via Bitcoin.

In that system, piracy will exist; we'll be able to read books for free. But I hope that most people will be honest. Also, maybe the e-book reader will say something like "you've finished reading this book, but I see that you haven't paid for it, would you like me to pay the author for you?"