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IMHO I think you all are looking at the problem of the walled garden wrong. While it is convient to think of electronic books as a walled garden I do not think that this helps describe what the landcaspe looks like. I like to think of electronic book readers as many different pits in a huge field that is electronic books. Each of these pits require me to be in a different format in order to get into that pit. The Kindle pit will require that I be in AZW or MOBI format where as the B&N pit requires that I be in an epub format. I do understand that there is the little matter of DRM to take care of but I see that personally as a nusance rather than a limiting factor. I have found too many sophisticated tools for removing the DRM to get worried about it. If I bought a book from B&N, and I understand how to do this, I would remove the DRM and use calibre to translate the book into the MOBI format then side load it to my kindle. I have a lot of friends that do that regularly.
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