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Originally Posted by segatang
For example, converting music CD to mp3 is easy.
The users think the music is still the music.
Converting book to ebook is not easy.
The format and layout of book will lose without careful re-edit.
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I think that you've confused the conversion of the content into a usable format, with the creation of the actual content.
Yes, conversion from CD to MP3 is easy because someone did the hard work upfront putting the music into a digital format.
Converting a pBook into an eBook is definately not easy, because the hard work is putting the text into a digital format. But if we assume that most authors use word processors today, then converting that into an eBook is so simple that a child can do it - if we know what format we want the eBook in. So the hard part is not in creating digital content - it's deciding what format it should be in.
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Originally Posted by segatang
The users find the readibility is somewhat different due to the hardware or ebook itself.
It is hard to rebuild the 'feeling of reading book' of magzine or journal paper for a small size ebook hardware, but 'listening to music' is the same in any mp3 player...
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Depending on the content, words are words - just like music is music. Some content (like books that contain many code examples or diagrams, or most magazines) do need to be much edited for smaller screens, but if they create the content with this in mind in the first place, it's not that much work.
But when people talk about eBooks, we are talking about books that are almost all text and do not need to be reformated for different screen sizes. The look of the text is almost irrelevant - it's the words (and the order in which they occur) that have value.