Having bought a Kobo Touch a few weeks ago, just prior to departing for Europe, I'm now in the eBooks market and getting more annoyed at DRM and the ebook industry. A few reasons:
- Differing availablility of titles both by country and by store. At the moment some books that I'd like to get appear to only be available in Kindle format as ebooks.
- Amazon won't allow those to work on my device - and that includes a few Kindle books that I picked up prior to getting a dedicated ereader. Another example of how DRM prevents me from spending money (and how "piracy" yields a better product in many industries than the legitimate thing).
- For older titles, I can often get a copy (including shipping) for less than I'd have to pay for the electronic book.
I've still like to get a larger-screen ereader to make it better for academic works, but, of course, assuming that they release a new model soon, buying a Kindle DX would only aggravate some of the above problems.
(On a related note: I rather wish that Kobo had kept physical page-turn buttons in addition to the touch screen, but other than that I kind of like the eBook).
