Hello Chip and others interested in this thread: I chose to shre this one article of the several I have read because it talks about the DRM (Digital Rights Management) issue. Here is a quote from the article: Analysis: In his exclusive telephone interview with me, Scott Pendergrast said he and his brother, Steve, shopped the site around to a number of buyers with the understanding that the current philosophy toward e-books would survive-and that presumably means that you'll still be able to buy nonDRMed books from Fictionwise when publishers allow" Here is the link to the article: http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/05/fictionwise-acquired-by-barnes-noble/ If the long URL above gets corrupted, below is a shorter link: http://tiny.cc/3z8gD It is nice to be blind in the digital age.