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Suppose the publishers drop DRM. Obviously it doesn't protect either the publishers or the authors, but it forces customers to buy all their ebooks from the store their reading device came from.
It seems reasonable that if Amazon dominance of the market is a problem for the publishers then they should have a coincidence of interests with shops like B&N to take that lever away from Amazon.
B&N and the rest would have to offer books in both ePub and Mobi format to get this to help in the short run. In the long run it might help ween people away from the Kindle over to better devices. And of course Amazon is a powerful competitor on many levels so something like that might have no effect on Kindle buyers anyway.
Oh well.
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