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I though long and hard about the DRM issue. I agree that there may come a day when I leave Amazon and move to an e-pub or some new yet unknown standard. Two points made me comfortable about my decision.
First, I do and have used the kindle app on the iPhone so even without my kindle I would still have access to my purchased content. Second, I looked at the Sony and Amazon stores closely and in almost all cases of the books I wanted to read Amazon was cheaper.
For example Neal Stephenson's catalog of the Baroque Cycle was $6.39 vs $7.99. The next two books had similar $2-3 differences between the two stores. This trend occurred again and again. Many times older bestsellers at Sony were 11.99 or 10.50 while Amazon was still 9.99. I believe the over the time of ownership Amazon's price competition will make up the DRM cost.
Ultimately until the publishing industry agrees on a standard we will be playing this DRM format war game, but that is the price of being early adopters :-)
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