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Originally Posted by mgmueller
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.
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I am not a fan of the legal dispute theory, but if there is a legal dispute the issue is whether Bookeen can provide "separate but equal" firmwares for MOBI and Adobe. Irex and Jinke say no, and so they provide the old MOBI DRM firmware but all new firmware is (or will be) Adobe DRM only. Bookeen says yes, but they have not actually delivered an updated MOBI firmware that is equivalent to an Adobe firmware yet.
I'm not sure dropping MOBI is entirely a legal issue for the other vendors, a single firmware supporting two DRM formats increases total sales more and probably requires less technical support than separate firmwares for each DRM scheme. The separate but equal approach may not be worth doing technically or financially, even if Amazon allows it. Note that both iRex and Jinke (for Astak in the US market) are willing to provide both Adobe and eReader DRM in a single firmware. I'm sure they would add MOBI if they could in a single firmware.