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Originally Posted by AnaemicOak
Have they said anything about allowing B&N style DRM in addition to regular Adept DRM? The SDK Adobe put out earlier in the year allows for both to be used at the choice of the manufacturer.
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The only info I've seen on that is on Nate's review: his Sony contact said (paraphrase) "not to my knowledge" on that one. I'm in Australia so I've not looked in to it further - I can cope with dedrm but not the geo restrictions.
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Originally Posted by EatingPie
Yes, this is the standing issue with DRM. It's a lock in, and can also lead to obsolescence of your content if done badly. You can, however, un-DRM books from the Sony store and have them in the clear for reading on any device.
The other issue you have is one of format incompatibility. The Kindle format is not compatible with the Sony Reader, even if it didn't have DRM. Similarly, the Kindle cannot display ePUB (which completely boggles my mind). So even you had every book in the clear, you could not swap them between the Sony and the Kindle.
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You can also strip the drm from most Amazon books - google unswindle or skindle.
If you use Calibre to manage your library, it will know what format any particular reader needs and do a conversion if needed 'on the fly' when you send books to the device. In my experience .mobi conversion to .epub for reading on my 505 works fine for prose, I've not tried it for anything with tables or illustrations beyond a cover image (and I don't care about full justification). You could probably set it to convert to lrf instead if you want full justification on a 505...