[kghose]

Well, going to http://www.gutenberg.org/ and finding books from there is enough for me!

I got the Kindle 4 for my wife and now I want one. I think the Amazon store is a little nasty (there is no "confirm" screen during purchases) and so on, but I think there are enough sources of ebooks other than Amazon.

Authors can now surely offer ebooks directly from their sites, instead of involving a middle man. I don't know why this hasn't taken off.

It would make for a nice return to the artisan age, where we bought stuff directly from the creators.