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Originally Posted by Gaurnim
Your suggestion makes sense.
I can totally picture Amazon going to court over this as, depending on the exact wording, they could choose an interpretation of the contract where having two different firmwares with different DRM systems on the samed device would not be permitted. After that it's a lawyer battle and Amazon clearly has the bigger guns in this department.
But I think Bookeen should be able to say that the firmware release has been delayed due to legal concerns, even if they can't give details.
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In Germany, weltbild.de is selling the .epub version.
If there'd actually be a legal dispute, I guess this wouldn't be possible.
Cybook Opus with .epub is available.
So, the only logical scenario would be, stopping the .prc version. But this one still can be bought.
I guess, the explanation is way easier: Bookeen doesn't sell eBooks, only readers. So, what would they gain by offering the Gen3 .epub firmware update? Not a single unit to sell for them. And so their focus clearly will be on the "new business", i. e. Opus and partners like weltbild.de for the .epub version.