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yeah, I agree with gwynevans above, I expect all the current slew of ereaders like cybook and sony will still carry on working even if the vendors stop making them. Theres enough user base for them that even if a new ebook format overtook all the others, you would most likely still be able to convert back to your readers format. So I wouldnt worry too much about the vendors "chucking in the towel". Take my palm for example. I bought my T3 a very long time back when palms where king of pda's. Now the palm company has changed hands so many times and the pda market has dropped to almost non existent (in uk), but I still heavily use it, and software is still widely available for it on the net.
I also beleive that DRM could make or break eReaders for the general market. The average Joe Blogs still isnt that computer savvy and isnt going to be interested in breaking drms or converting them to get them to work for their eReaders, hence why I can see the kindle doing well, epsecially if they made them available to outside of usa.
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