If you're open to conversion, then buying a book in an easy to de-drm/convert format such as .lit may be one option. You can keep the original .lit files for future use should you change readers (or buy a reader that directly supports .lit) and in the mean time, explode .lit books to .html and then to the format used by your current reader.
Once more publishers start shipping ePub books, that may also be an option. So long as you can remove any DRM to allow future conversion or reading by hardware that doesn't support that type of epub drm yet would read epub otherwise.
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I don't mind DRM. What I do mind is an ebook format going obsolete in a few years.
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That's a good enough reason to mind DRM imo. Book formats going obsolete wouldn't be as big a problem if DRM and proprietary nature of formats didn't get in the way.
At least with a format like .lit both those obstacles can be side-stepped so you can still read your books in the future.
I'm hoping the industry at some point will wake up and realise DRM doesn't really work and that a standard format (or even several formats so long as they're open standards) is beneficial to everyone (the music industry is starting to get this idea.)