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I'm not particularly worried for a number of reasons. First, for the most part, I have confidence that the DRM will be either be defeated or a mechanism will be put into place to convert. Truly, I expect that within the next couple of years, we will see DRM go by wayside much like music DRM is slowly being phased out.
Of course, 90% if not more of the books that I have purchased are available without DRM on the darknet, so if sony does drop support and thumbs it's nose at customers by not providing a way to migrate to a different format, then I am covered for those books.
Also, if Sony pulls a stunt like that, I would expect that most publishers would at least provide copies of the books in a different format for a nominal fee, if only to avoid the bad press and lawsuits that would follow if they didn't. For that matter, it would be a smart PR move if Amazon offered Kindle format replacements for a nominal fee in such a circumstance.
Finally, if need be, I can always screen scrap the remaining books. The so called analog hole has always been the achilles heel of any DRM scheme. If it's viewable or listen able on a computer, then a copy can be made. It might not be convenient, but it's doable. You just pull the book up in the pc software, do a screen capture of the window and then run that through text recognition software.
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