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I don't know if it's the proprietary nature of the e-book formats that has killed the product so much as the fact that DRM locks you in to one device for the most part and that an e-book costs as much as the full retail of a hardback. Why would I buy an e-book if I can buy a paperback version of the book for 1/4 of the cost?
I really like e-books. I like being able to load HTML, CHM, TXT, RTF, or PDB files on my PPC and read them as needed. Project Gutenberg provides quite a bit of material and the books I get that come with a CHM file can be loaded and read with uBook - easy reference material at times.
I look forward to seeing what develops from this as well. I really hope that e-books can drop in price to the point that they're reasonable and that they'll be usable in a way that won't make us buy the book again if we change devices.
-Pete
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