it's essentially a way to get stuff back into print.

Which is undoubtedly a Good Thing (™) :)

And, as I forgot to say in my previous comment, thank you for pointing it out - I shall go and have another look later on.

It might just be a personal thing - I like to see books ordered alphabetically by author and the iTunes style alphabetising by title irks me :)

I don't like the DRM

Me neither. It's like region-coding on DVDs. Bah.

I understand that some folk have devised ways around it though. Allegedly.