Thread: Firmware update for PRS-500 available - EPUB!
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Old 11-15-2009, 12:42 PM   #26
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They have a business reason to support PRS-500 if they don't support them they can not sell them their books once the store transitions over to ePUB.

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Actually, it might be quite the opposite. Because they could continue to sell the ebooks from there store in BBeB format and ePub format to continue supporting the 500.

But, once they do this upgrade the 500 will no longer be limited to buying from the Sony store, but opens up a world of eBooks stores and libraries too.

So, by doing this they could be loosing sales.

Is the upgrade free?

Also, not sure why they dropped the discount. When the 505 came out they gave you $100 off on trade in. I guess because they 500's are all a year older now than the last offer.

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