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I simply don't understand comments like that, and they sound to me like nothing so much as a way to justify buying the Sony reader in the first place. The typical reader reads books in copyright every day. I am part of a book club, and over the past 2 years, we have read 18 books: all of them were in copyright, i.e. not free. I, for one, will not change my reading habits to suit a gadget, however appealing. No ereader will ever get anywhere until the DRM problem is resolved, because only a very few will spend several hundred dollars on a device that can load only a particular encoding. Last week I ran into someone who had bought the Sony reader and returned it because, though in the software business, he found it annoying to have to download books at all. This is the kind of objection that will have to be dealt with.
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