Interesting

Rich Adin on the Sony Reader:

Sony also has its flaws. Perhaps the most significant flaw is the failure to include a firmware upgrade that would expand the DRMed ePub capability to include the B&N flavor of DRM. This is significant because there are now 3 major places where one cannot buy ebooks for their Sony without stripping the DRM from the files: B&N, Amazon, and the iBookstore.

What’s interesting about Adin’s criticism of Sony’s limitation (and it quickly is becoming a big concern: Sony’s only real advantage before this year was that you could “shop around” and buy ebooks from wherever you wanted) isn’t that you can’t buy books from Kindle, B&N and iBookstore, it’s that you can’t buy books from them without stripping them of their DRM. It’s been possible to do this for a while, but rarely did people really mention it. I wonder if DRM-jailbreaking in ebooks is becoming so rampant that it’s simply part of the basic conversation, much like it was with mp3s in the early part of the decade.