Posted 05/20/2009 at 06:24:49pm

I wont buy a kindle until the books i buy for the kindle aren't bound to amazon. if amazon decides for whatever reason to cancel my kindle, all my books go with it. If the battery in your kindle goes, it's $80 to replace it and if you had any subscriptions (newpaper, magazine etc) that's all gone unless you kept backups since amazon does not maintain that stuff.

I'd LOVE to buy a kindle - but i wont until the books are in an open format that will work on a pc or other devices.

When you buy a kindle book, its more like you are renting it from amazon. When you buy a book, you own the physical book. You can give it away, resell it, read it anywhere, not just on amazon approved devices.

I really hope amazon goes to an open format - they dropped DRM from their MP3's - now lets see them do the same with books.