Well, I actually agree with most of what you said. Except...
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so maybe authors should have a rethink, because no matter how many restrictions (DRM, Split Publisher House HTML's, Password Protected PDF'S) you put on them someone out there will break them and post them.
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You do understand that it's mostly the publishers who make these decisions, not the authors, right? Or the online booksellers.
Ereads, for example, partners with fictionwise and puts out books in multi-format DRM-free editions. But when those same titles go to mobipocket or Sony or other stores, they show up with DRM because that's required by the stores. Stupid, yes. But that's why it's always good to check around and see if there are other editions of a book you want, because maybe it actually does exist in a DRM-free edition.
As for the books you want not being available, we're in a transition period now, I think, where there's a huge backlist of books that need to be brought into ebook format (and sometimes that requires new contracts), as well as current releases. And some publishers, like Tor, are trying to ramp up--but it's a big undertaking, and everything takes longer than you think it will.