bookshelves that reject all books except those the manufacturer has blessed

Devices like the iPad and the Kindle are a wholly new kind of thing — they function like bookshelves that reject all books except those the manufacturer has blessed.

There's an easy way to change this, of course. Just tell Apple it can't license your copyrights—that is, your books—unless the company gives you the freedom to give your readers the freedom to take their products with them to any vendor's system. You'd never put up with these lockdown shenanigans from a hardcopy retailer or distributor, and you shouldn't take it from Apple, either, and that goes for Amazon and the Kindle, too.

This is exactly what I've done. I won't sell my e-books in any store that locks my users into a vendor's platform.

Cory Doctorow http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/456751-Can_You_Survive_a_Benevolent_Dictatorship_.php