[jbcohen]

There are a few book stores that sell their books in proprietary formats and if they do sell them in an industry standard format they make it hard for their customers to make use of the products that they bought from them, such as Amazon, Barns and Nobles and Sony. I would think that they would want to sell to the widest number of customers possible regardless of the reader that the customer chose. So why do they include encryption in their products that will allow their products to be read only by their readers? I would think that this would be contrary to their best interests.

I think that Kobo has the issue right they want to sell and quite frankly could care less what ereader you have, probably would prefer if I had their reader, but are putting more emphasis on where the long term profits are.