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A bit over the top. Yes, utilizing Amazons devices gives them full power over the content on your device but why do we need to suggest that E-books have to deliver on the same business model as print books?. There are benefits to e-books that regular books don't offer so just ask yourself if the tradeoff is worth it. I'm certain Amazon, in general, does not want to be in the business of removing books from peoples devices.

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Basically. "A bit over the top" could very well be the byline of gnu.org/philosophy. They are the impractical philosophical anchor at one end of a line of conversation; if the world worked the way the philosophy described, everyone would be a bit technologically poorer (but "freer", at least).

How exactly would we be technologically poorer in this case? Would Amazon / B&N / Apple / any ebook distributor suddenly lose their impetus to develop ebook-reading tech / devices?

Maybe they wouldn't lose their impetus, but they might lose their ability to sell the idea of e-books to publishers.

The major stores sell DRM-free music now, but do you think that Apple would have been able to get music publishers on board if the iTMS had no copy protection on day one?

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