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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
It may be true that drm is not going away soon, but that will be sufficient for commercial ebooks to remain an insignificant percentage (under 1%) of the book market. Even if drm goes away there remains the issue of pricing for ebooks; we need a very large supply of easily accesible very cheap or free ebooks for takeoff. I think that these 2 conditions (good drm-free open format and large supply of free/cheap content) are neccesary for commercial ebooks to take off.
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Project Gutenberg (Manybooks.net does a very good job of converting them to many eBook formats if you don't want to "roll your own").
Fictionwise offers many good books for reasonable prices.
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head but there are more.
Then you have independant authors who make their books available through their web sites.
And that doesn't include the sources where you can get "unofficial" eBook versions of pBooks.