The e-reader market is stuck where the mp3 player market was a decade(ish) ago - Amazon have <i>everyone's</i> business, any other platform is of negligible influence, and Amazon are doing entirely as they please with every aspect of their device ecosystem from a near unassailable position, just as it was with iPods and iTunes for a few years.<p>I'd love to suggest that it's going to change, that open, un-DRMed EPUBs will come to dominate, even that Amazon will add EPUB support to the Kindle platforms - but I'm not holding my breath. The publishing industry is even more luddite and change-phobic than the music industry ever was.
I've got a Kobo Touch that I bought on clearance at Target a year or two ago and it hits all the wants.<p>I don't even use their app to add/remove books, it seems to just mount as mass storage over USB no matter what I connect it to. After disconnecting the Touch it rescans it's flash and there we go. Even works with un-DRMed epubs. It's not a perfect reader, but I've been happy with it.