[Victoria]

I buy drm'd books regularly. I accept that there needs to be some kind of protection against piracy. I wish there were a way to lend an ebook to my sisters or a good friend, as I do with paper books - say to 4 people. However, that's not an option yet. Since libraries can do it now, I think this will happen with time.

Though I'm fine with drm, I'm really annoyed about not being able to read my Sony ebooks on my iPad. I accept drm to protect authors, but I don't accept being locked into a particular device. That is why I am now buying from amazon and kobo instead of Sony. I did buy more than $400 from Sony before I had other devices and understood they were captive on my sony 505. I do reread books and I want to have the option to switch devices as tech moves ahead - so I only buy books from vendors who build that flexibility in right from the start.

It seems to me that there are 2 philosophies - vendors who want to sell books, and their readers are secondary, and companies that want to sell hardware, and they keep you captive by not allowing the books on other devices. I'm sticking with vendors who want to sell books.