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One side is that the format works and is well supported by the device
The other side is that the outlook on the future of a format is not good when it is not open, not liberally licensed and not even well documented so one knows which version does what.
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Take the German market for example. Mobipocket does exist for years. But besides Mobipocket.de itself only two eBook stores supported it, beam-ebooks.de and libri.de. Libri actually is a large retailer selling books, audio books and eBooks.
Now, as soon as the Sony Reader appeared in Germany, libri.de switched to epub within days. They still sell the prc content, but you have to look for the link waaaay below the folded out epub menu.
Since then especially the major book retailers (who didn't consider eBooks till then) all are focused on epub, with Weltbild being one force behind the development of an epub-Cybook firmware.
And beam-ebooks.de just eliminated all DRM-eBooks which means their whole stock of Mobipocket prc.
At least here the future doesn't look that bright for Mobipocket/prc.