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The model is wrong for me. The majority of my eBooks are fiction. I seldom reread fiction. And since I cannot lend or sell eBooks - there is little desire to own.
Thus, my priorities are:
1) Public library through Overdrive.com
2) A new (nonexisting) business model, like Netflix or BlockBuster to rent eBooks that the public library does not have or the queue is longer than I want to wait
3) Project Gutenberg and similar
4) Independents like SmashWords
5) eBookstores like Amazon and B&N
I received a Kindle for XMas and love it - except for Public Library eBooks. If Amazon provided a web interface to Overdrive.com that allowed check out of ePub, Mobi and reading on the Kindle - I would NOT be in the market for another eReader. This could be another feature of kindle.amazon.com. However, I will likely buy a Pocketbook 360, Kobo, or Nook this summer.
Thus for me, the bookstore is less important than the device - UNTIL there is an eBook rental service.
I think eBooks are like movies. The public library lends DVDs, but the selection is limited and the queue is long. Video stores and services rent them. And retailers sell DVDs. I buy some. I rent most. And I occasionally borrow from the public library.
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