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I have to say that, as a consumer, I am rather reluctant to call Adobe's DRM scheme "open" or a "standard". I had an experience several years ago with a very early e-book ("God's Debris", by Scott Adams) which at that time was released as a DRM'd PDF file of some sort. Well, guess what happened when I bought a new computer? That DRM scheme was no longer supported, and I couldn't read the book. Granted, I'd only spent a couple bucks on it, but still.
Personally, I hope someday soon the publishing industry realizes the folly of DRM and we can all move on. In the meantime, I'm downloading those DRM-stripping tools so that if/when Amazon's AZW format becomes an orphan, I'll be able to rescue my content. (I expect that the DMCA or its administratively-created exemptions will allow such behavior by then, but who knows.)
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