Thinking of the implementation of the screensaver/standby pic, I doubt if ebook.so for PRS-600 is used anyway.
Here is code from defsked ebooksystem.so
Assuming that
this.ebook.device.framebuffer.orientation.setCurre nt can handle all four states it may be worth to overload "this.ebook.device.framebuffer.orientation.rot ate" and try calling target.setCurrent() with params 2 and 3
[Edit] or even better just set this.ebook.device.framebuffer.orientation.landscap e to the desired value [/Edit]