The Next Betamax?

Josh Marshall engages in a second round of Kindle-blogging:

…as much as like the Kindle technology, it's worrisome that one company — i.e., Amazon — could develop such a stranglehold on books. If I buy lots of books over the next few years for Kindle and someone else devises a better mouse trap, is my book collection held hostage to Kindle and Amazon? I'd figure probably so. Some universal or quasi-universal standards like DVDs and CDs would be nice.