Human brains are pattern recognition devices. Conspiracies are very nice patterns; everything fits. Science is messy. Conspiracy theories feel better—they provide certainty.

But you can distrubute it freely, without DRM, outside of the iBooks store, as long as you don't charge for it.

You're doing it wrong. If it's in your iTunes Library, and selected for sync, it'll sync. I've sync'd Amazon purchases, CD rips, and Internet Archive downloads (concerts and movies) to my iPod with no problem

Old adaptations are pretty common--take the Osage-Orange, for example. Nothing eats it, nothings disperses the seeds anymore; the creatures that probably fed on it and spread the seeds went extinct long ago (giant ground sloths, etc). It would have likely gone extinct too, but we humans planted the tree for windbreaks and for useful wood.

Andrew Sulliva;s Virtually Normal has been delisted: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/amazon-delists-gay-books-as-adult.html Sullivan's post may be misleadingly titled: is Virtually Normal, (a non-fiction book about gay rights, from a conservative perspective) a "gay-themed" book? Or is it just that its politics is likely to make someone uncomfortable?

Is Google going into the libraries and destroying all extant copies of these books? That's the only way they'd be the "exclusive source of access to these books."