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I'll throw in my two cents worth and probably be flamed for it or at least lightly basted.
I have no intention of ever using the Sony Connect store or any other e-book store that has DRM on a publication I "buy". The word "Buy" when used in relation to DRM publications is one of those cases of redefining a word so people won't have to hear the unpleasant true ones like "rent", "lease" and thigns like that.
When I buy a "book" I have a physical object that belongs to me which I can use in any conceivable place, time circumstance and it belongs to me and I get to decide how I makes use of that object.
I have a Sony Reader and the same rules apply to my use of it.
To have the drastic and rather insane limitations of DRM placed on something and THEN expect me to pay 90% of what a Book costs is something that proves the H.L Mencken dictum "No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the America Public"
Rather than pay for a crippled, hamstrung DRM "virtual book", I'll buy the book at the bookstore and then either download an unprotected copy of that book from the ether out there or cut the spine and scan the darn thing myself in a high speed scanner.
Either way, what goes on my reader will be able to go on my computers, my E-bookwise, my Cybook, or any other devide I own and choose to use to read from.
Books that touch DRM will never touch my Sony Reader.
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