Our friend Jorgen dropped off a link to a story at SFGate (San Francisco Chronicle) about what I think is going to be one of the biggest topics of conversation for the eBook Revolution in 2010.

As we all learned from the music industry’s struggle with piracy and illegal file sharing, it is something that exists because it’s so easy to reproduce digital content. It exists. It’s impossible to eradicate.

However, it only becomes a problem when digital content providers and producers charge too much for their titles and attempt to control their use by locking the files or making the formats proprietary.

It’s going to get worse with new eBook readers entering the market every other month, and as eBook reading is adopted by the mainstream. It will only get bad if the publishers and eBook distributors continue to charge too much money, lock their files and limit their usage.

It’s as simple as that, yah?

Jorgen gave us this fantastic link to An eBook Buyer’s Guide to Privacy by Ed Bayley at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Here’s a quote from the article to capture your interest: “E-readers possess the ability to report back substantial information about their users’ reading habits and locations to the corporations that sell them. And yet none of the major e-reader manufacturers have explained to consumers in clear unequivocal language what data is being collected about them and why.”

This is something we knew that some eReader manufacturers could do, but never thought they would. On the surface, we’re worried about junk mail and directed advertising clogging up our inboxes. But what else can they do with the personal information they collect from your eBook reader?

Read the article. Bonus too! There’s a chart that separates the secure eBook Readers from the known offenders.