It sounds like you're equating "e-books" with "books with Digital Rights Management (DRM)". While the books Amazon sells for Kindle have DRM, the Baen books for example do not (even in their Kindle versions). And, if you care to, there are articles to be Googled up on how to break the DRM on Kindle e-books so you can save them yourself, and not be dependent on Amazon in the future. More trouble now, but it overcomes the DRM problem.
For old books, Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) is the ultimate source for a huge percentage of what other places also distribute. Available in Kindle and Epub and other formats (including text and html). (Sorry if this is so obvious you just didn't mention it; it'd be a shame for somebody not to know it.) And Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php) always needs volunteers who can take the time to proofread (or format, or whatever) a few pages of what they're working on right now....
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Date: 2011-03-02 03:27 pm (UTC)For old books, Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) is the ultimate source for a huge percentage of what other places also distribute. Available in Kindle and Epub and other formats (including text and html). (Sorry if this is so obvious you just didn't mention it; it'd be a shame for somebody not to know it.) And Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php) always needs volunteers who can take the time to proofread (or format, or whatever) a few pages of what they're working on right now....