Isn't it silly how much money is been wasted on DRM based book sales to protect the books from the people that would buy them whether it had DRM or not, yet it's not stopping the pirates pirating.
Next share holder meeting they have, they should propose a way to increase profit by 22c per book by doing scrapping DRM.
With doubt over whether books will work on my reader in the future, I'm going to stop buying from Amazon. Granted I've only bought a few eBooks from them anyway since it's only recently I found out it was possible to get the books onto my reader with a few scripts (and believe me, actually buying DRM books rather than sticking with my DRM free only stance was a huge hurdle to overcome). But it looks like I'm once more back to buying only DRM free books, only way to be certain the books will be readable
Chances are whatever DRM changes they make, someone will bypass them. If the end user is supposed to read the content, then there will never ever be a DRM system that will work. You've only to look at the game industry who have tried just about everything, the only system that had moderate success was by not shipping most of the content and making it available online and that ended up annoying potential customers.