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It's a sad fact of life that the Sony bookstore blows.
It's an equally sad fact of life that they lock everything down with DRM, even public domain works.
There are alternatives. You can buy books from elsewhere and de-DRM them. As much as I want the Lord of the Rings myself, I won't do that because I refuse to give money to DRM-restrictive publishers and thereby vote in favor of what they do. You can buy DRM-free books elsewhere (I'm a big fan of Baen Books, though their politics are starting to bother me). There are independent ebookstores, there are authors' consortia, and various other places to buy books.
Or, of course, you can tap into the enormous library of DRM-free books available right here, and on Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, Manybooks, and various other sites. You could always read the Harvard Classics, for instance (you can pick up all 51 volumes, plus the Reading Guide, on MobileRead). Remember that this current idea that copyright should extend long after the author's grandchildren are dead is only a recent idea; there are plenty of wonderful books that predate it. (edit: including many, many works on Christianity)
Speaking of the many ways in which Sony sucks, their software is high on that list. Go grab yourself a copy of Calibre (link can be found in the Calibre support forum down the way a bit) and organize your library in ways the Sony Library program could never dream of.
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