[yvanleterrible]

I don't want to be rude but even if Sony's way shows strong arm techniques, everybody doing software and hardware combos do it in the same way. Apple deals the same even if in a 'looser Californian' style. What about Microsoft? They sure are trying hard to reach similar goals. This whole concept is simply based on the ephemeral properties of consumerism. Work the hardest and fastest to reap the most in the shortest.

It is your choice to do or pass. Granted the market is not quite mature in the ebook industry but things will change and move quickly when DRM and format issues get resolved as in the music industry.

Sony is vindicated for its ways as all leaders of a new field are. It's the price we pay for the investment they make in the uncertainty of novelty, short and simple.