You can’t switch from one proprietary format to another format without having to repurchase your content, and if your format becomes obsolete, you’ve essentially lost your ebook collection. Right now, you as an ebook purchaser are in more-or-less the same boat as people with LP collections were in when CDs came along, or people who bought Betamax movies were in when that format disappeared. If, fifteen years from now, Amazon goes belly-up and Kindle is no more (an unlikely scenario, but weirder things have happened), you can then convert the book to whatever new format comes along. If you buy a book in ePub to read on, say, a Kobo reader, and a year from now your Kobo reader breaks and you decide to buy a Kindle, you will be able to easily and legally convert the ePub book to Kindle format. Without DRM, you can easily convert the book from format to format (using Calibre). The upside of DRM-free for you as an ebook purchaser is very clear: You will no longer be held hostage to a particular device or format.
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