Look, we DESPERATELY need a single e-Book format.
Amazon has the power and numbers to make that single format happen. Every e-reader that I know can be firmware flashed, so it's just a question of licensing and implementing the Kindle format in each Reader.
Unfortunately, it looks like Amazon wants to the Kindle to be the "iPod of e-Readers" in all ways
but the good. They're locking Amazon content to the Kindle like Apple iTunes to the iPod. But unlike the iPod, the Kindle is the butt-ugliest piece of shi -- er -- electronics I've seen in years...
To the pain.... Children will gaze upon you and cry out 'my God what is that thing!'
I have no problem with DRM
as long as its universally usable. That latter is where Amazon is blowing it... so, yeah, chalk me up as another one pissed at Amazon on this one. (Though I admit, early to call, and time will tell.)
-Pie