Will e-books ever go DRM-free?

There is some competition because you can have a variety of reading apps on iOS, Android, and Windows platforms. I also believe just about everyone but Amazon supports epub – by that I mean B&N, Sony, Apple, and Kobo.

While I do dislike Amazon’s non-support of epub, the easy conversion to .mobi does make it more of an inconvenience than anything.

Isn’t most of the market in nook and kindle thought?

It could just be me, but i don’t want to read an ebook on my monitor.

Amazon has the lion’s share. B&N is second in the U.S. Kobo has a strong international presence. I really have no idea about Apple’s share. They claim 100M ebooks sold but people suspect those numbers include lots of free ebooks.

People read on their iPhones, iPods, iPads, Android devices, etc. Amazon is clearly the leader in dedicated e-reader sales in the U.S. but I have no idea about how e-reading habits break down in terms of devices used. I agree that reading on a monitor sucks, but I’ve done it and while I can’t imagine reading a novel on an iPhone, people do that too.