I certainly hope Fictionwise does NOT go away. They've always been highly supportive of small publishers. Wrapping them into B&N would be a negative, from my perspective.
As far as mobipocket is concerned, I think FW tries to make books available in every format they can. They bought eReader because they were concerned about having control over a DRM format in an era where their competitors did (and I imagine because it was a bargain).
A year or so ago, I'd heard they were merging eReader with ePub. Anyone heard anything on that recently?
Rob Preece
Publisher,
www.BooksForABuck.com