You are not buying a reader. You are "buying" a content provider. Think about this carefully. Although I am an enthusiastic Amazon customer, I have a nook and

You are not buying a reader. You are "buying" a content provider. Think about this carefully. Although I am an enthusiastic Amazon customer, I have a nook and I hope this is a fight that Amazon doesn't win. I hate the fact that Amazon has adopted an essentially closed format, whose licence forbids it from being on the same device as any other format. B&N has made a lot of efforts to be reasonably open, adopting ePUB, encouraging Adobe to adopt so-called "social DRM" and so on. Principles aside, I really like my nook, and haven't noticed any availability issues with respect to the B&N selection - perhaps I am a boring reader.