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The situation with ebooks is different to music, I think, because people entered the mp3 era with a lot of digital content already on CDs which they could convert. CDs were also sold in parallel. So, in that case, DRM was a limitation only on some of their music purchased in a certain way, which was a pain in the neck and people didn't have to stand for it (you just buy the CD and rip it).
With books, people accept that they can't transfer their DTBs into ereaders, although many will feel that they have a right to that content having once paid for it. So, there isn't the same comparison between existing content transferred to the device and new content.
Personally, it looks to me that there is much more support for, and access to content, with Kindle (and I am not yet a Kindle user, so we'll see what I think in a couple of months!).
I don't know how it will all pan out, of course - but ebooks are not in the same situation as music.
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