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If a publisher comes up with an unbreakable DRM, I will not purchase my books from them. Sorry, but my insistence on liberating my books in order to use them on any device (future proofing reasons) and the need to be able to pass them on to my heirs trumps the "need" of publishers and vendors to have absolute control over the files. I refuse to submit to ecosystem lock-ins. I am locked in to the Apple ecosystem with their apps due to tecnical limitations on my part, but my ebooks will not suffer that fate. On a related tangent, I consider it double dipping on the part of the developers that I will be forced to re-purchase the same apps if I choose to move from Apple to Android (as an example). There should be a common marketplace for apps allowing for seamless transition between ecosystems. The developers are fine with multiple purchases because they get paid again when one transitions, and the platforms (Apple, Android etc) are fine with it because it erects a barrier for a heavily invested user to move to another platform.
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