Hey all im a newbie here, been reading for a while but never bothered to post till now
I completely agree with Dawn.
Personally I think cloud computing /software as a service whatever you want to call it is going to keep on growing and could be abused to a great extent screwing the customers over.
If abused this could result in us not actually owning any of the books we buy and books we do supposedly own could have very restrictive DRM and be under the complete control of the service provider.
I think its pretty naive to dismiss the threat to your rights from cloud computing. Cloud computing makes it easy to take away your rights and if there's money to be made in removing your rights then it will be done.
Personally I don't want to pay for access to a product I want the product! I don't think the advantages offered by the cloud are worth it in the domain of reading. I realy hope books don't move to the cloud.