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And then I'm just generally curious how people feel about buying from Smashwords, or other smaller ebookstore. (It seems to me there'd be a benefit from getting ebooks DRM free, and in multiple formats, but the evidene points to people sticking mostly with Amazon. So... what's the biggest reason for that?)
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The obvious answer is that Smashwords just doesn't sell the works of a lot of people's favorite authors. There's
definitely a benefit to getting DRM-free ebooks—no doubt about it—but here's the kicker: DRM-free is only of interest to me
AFTER I've already determined it's a book I want to read. Not before. I couldn't really care any less about a DRM-free ebook from an author that I have little or no interest in reading.
So I buy from the store that A) sells the works of authors I'm interested in, and B) makes it easiest to get my purchase on the ereader of my choice (which is a Kindle).
(Unless another store is offering the same book for a significant enough savings to make it worth my while to buy from them, strip the DRM and format shift... and that doesn't happen very often anymore in this post-Agency Pricing ebook world).
I honestly think you're overthinking this thing. Kindle owners buy ebooks from Amazon... and there's a lot of Kindles out there.