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Surely the k for pc 1.17 concern is not as bad as you imply. The DRM arms race is basically unwinnable. Workarounds will appear for anything that Amazon come up with, there is no way tomreally protect what is basically a chunk of text and yet still have it easily readable on lots of devices.
Look at what happened with cd, dvd, blu ray... All were broken... Look at computer games..Same thing..
So you will always be able to backup, Danny's format of, de DRM your purchases e books.
The fact that kobo and Amazon are competitors actually helps. They will not join forces and simul-launch some mega hardened DRM, so if one vendors books become tricky to backup, wise buyers will buy the same books from the other store.
If you look at digital music, all the main players have pretty much abandoned DRM, yet legit sales and legit streaming have seen off almost all the illicit download sites. I reckon books will go the same way, sooner or later.
That only leaves video, but it is way cheaper to pay the Netflix etc subscriptions than to buy the blank media you would need to stash away copies of all you can watch in a month.
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