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They have a special firmware with both DE and Mobipocket support. Amazon won't let them release it.
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Sigh, there's a leak for any new blockbuster movie out there. Couldn't this special firmware just "slip" out of somebody's FTP-pocket at Bookeen ...?!
Well, Amazon's decision might make some sense in the US. For Europe this will mean that epub will be the future format. None of the European device producers or online shops (with the exception of mobipocket.com, of course) has any reason to bow to Amazon's marketing policies.
The Kindle isn't sold over here. If Amazon decides to keep PRC out of all current and future e-ink reading devices (and it will come to that because of their restrictive "no other DRM than ours"-policy), it's up to them. Sony won't mind. And the other device producers will switch to epub eventually, if they haven't already. Again, I'm speaking of Europe, not the US.
Amazon might just stand on the brink of losing a market potentially larger than the US.