Just a little thought here, why would you get into all the trouble of converting ebooks yourself? Maybe it is an idea to let e-books be converted through a central server owned by some 'e-book converting company'.
Of course this would require some extra costs for conversion, but if your downloaded e-books are automatically converted into a format your PDA, E-book or other reading device supports, it could save a lot of trouble. This way you could download all your ebooks in your preferred format, paying a small extra fee. Or maybe it could be done for free, through some sort of website.
This is not something I totally thought through, but maybe it could be an alternative to all the hustle of installing conversion programs and make reading ebooks more attractive for a larger (non-technical) group of people (at least, if you're willing to pay for something like this
). What do you guys think? I am all
