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My problem with Amazon (in the ebooks market) is two-fold:
1) I don't like lock-in. Given that ebooks are glorified text files there is no reason for them to be locked to a particular platform. The whole thing came about because publishers were idiots and played into Amazon's hands. I prefer an approach like Kobo's. Although I'd prefer no DRM or social DRM at least all my Kobo books are compatible with any device that buys into Adobe's tech.
2) Amazon doesn't care about the Canadian market. We still don't have the Voyage, for example. They won't bother work with Overdrive to get library loans working here. Etc.
So Howey's tale irritates me. I understand his reasoning. But it means that should I want to read his work in my preferred format (e-ink) I need to do business with a company that created an ecosystem I don't like and which doesn't care about me as a consumer. And then I need to covert the files myself, when at the supplier side that's a task that can be done once for everyone and exist for eternity.
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