The Sydney Morning Herald just mentioned something that I also said yesterday; its quite lovely of them and they encapsulate the argument so succintly!

Here it is:

The danger of the e-book as we know it, is that it centralises control of published material. Last year, two books by George Orwell - 1984 and Animal Farm - were erased from people's Kindles after they had been purchased because the books had been added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have the rights to them. Angry consumers were unimpressed by the literary irony. Amazon later admitted the deletions were a bad idea. One technology expert has said that buying an e-book usurped his rights as a consumer. An e-book, he explained, can't be lent and can't be sold once it's read. Technology should serve us: how we read is as important as what we are reading.