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Adobe is generally awful and I applaud anybody's efforts to get away from them. I don't really like DRM at all, to be honest. Digital music folks are just beginning to understand that nobody really does and allowing access on other devices is probably the best way to sell music - you just have to make it as easy as possible for people to buy things and chances are that they will buy rather than steal. There may always be pirates, but their impact can really be minimized if you make things easy on folks. Also, pricing close to what people see is an appropriate value - that's some free market action there. Publishers jack up prices and act all surprised when suddenly people are just stealing their stuff! I hope book publishers and e-reader manufacturers can come in line with the same ideas without having to go through a repeat of the past 10+ years of stupidity that's been going on in music.

I will definitely check out baen.com, thanks! I'm a big science fiction fan. Slightly less so on the fantasy stuff these days, I'm a bit pickier there, but even so. It looks like a good site, and I like their free library introduction. Good for them, that's really forward-thinking and brilliant, and I hope they make oodles of cash. Or at least enough to keep doing what they're doing and live happily ever after, which is after all the point.