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Originally Posted by pata

So it's only at the discretion of the publisher then? I know for example O'Reilly provides all their eBooks in five formats. No eBook store is offering conversions?

Looking at O'Reilly's web page, it seems most of their content comes in ePub, mobi or PDF plus .apk for Android devices. While Baen for example supplies 7 different formats, the only one that might be considered as non-reflowable is the RTF option which is easily printable to PDF.

If you want conversions on non-DRMed content, look at programs such as calibre.

You could try to convince publishers/ebook vendors that there is enough of a market out there for non-reflowable ebooks but that's likely to be tilting at windmills.