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The Wylie-Amazon deal is for established back-list titles of established authors. Think of it as a sort of an "contemporary classic ebook reprint imprint". (Do NOT try to say that three times quickly after even your first martini of the day.)
As such, it doesn't bother me in the least. I am all for any program which keeps titles "in print". There are so many books out of print, anything which keeps them available -- even with the "restriction" of being forced to buy from the world's largest ebook distributor -- is a good thing. Frankly, geo-restrictions are much more annoying than vendor exclusivity.
And, at the end of the day, all of these "exclusive" books remain available at the library, in paper, in used book stores and on ebay or abe books. Plus, even for someone like me who reads about 60 books a year, losing ebook access to any particular title because I choose not to do business with a vendor isn't a true hardship as there are always dozens of other works sitting in my TBR stack of equal value to me.
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