Most products eventually disappear, particularly electronic gadget types.

But that's not the point here. The point is that I want to own my books, there are many reasons all of us should want this.

For one, ebook market is growing and Kindle isn't even close to being "iPhone of ebooks": there are some interesting models from Sony, plus I'd like copies of my books on my computers and on my iPhone. I don't want some cheap disposable device to have full control over (eventually) thousands of dollars of my books, that's just silly.

and I want to own my iTunes music, but I didn't for a long time - welcome to the digital age.

A lot of people, myself included, kept far away from the iTMS for this very reason until recently.

Ironically it was Amazon that was providing the alternative to the DRM-laden product in that instance; I wonder who'll figure out a way to be the Good Guy w/r/t the Kindle now that Amazon has decided to take a crack at the DRM game?

You can still own your music if you buy Amazon mp3s.