Why Proprietary Ebook Formats Hurt Readers and Publishers

It takes something truly ridiculous to make me write an out and out rant. Still, every now and then I read something that I can't avoid responding to, because of the degree to which it misrepresents reality in an area I both care about and am knowledgeable in. Yesterday I had that experience when I read an article contending that proprietary eBook formats are good rather than bad, and that while "someday" we may have a truly interoperable eBook format,