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My main gripe with amazon is the simple fact that they only sell for Kindle. I don't care for the format, as long as I can read it on my reader. My reader can read a lot of formats, but no Kindle. Why? Because that format is a closed format and that makes it a vendor lock. The e-pubs with the 'normal' DRM can be read on *all* readers that support epub. Only the B&N epubs have a different DRM. So, not the e-pub format is flawed or non-universal, it is the DRM that is applied on it. I won't even start about Apple, which handles everything as if they invented it and then 'improved'. Let's say I have a different opinion.
At least I can *choose* to remove the DRM from the e-pubs (Apple excluded), I cannot do the same for Amazon e-books. Result, as long as Amazon does not sell e-pub with or without 'normal' DRM, no more sales from me.
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