You're getting down-voted, but I agree with you on this particular point. The vendor is providing a full refund to customers including an additional $25 credi

You're getting down-voted, but I agree with you on this particular point. The vendor is providing a full refund to customers including an additional $25 credit for customers who used the annotation service. DRM is an annoying customer unfriendly solution to a problem that I'm not convinced exists... but people have been given full access to these books for a while. They've been able to read them from date of purchase until now. Some of them are probably finished reading the books and I'm sure "more than a few people" have exported their books to open formats. Microsoft has handled this as gracefully as it could, all things told.