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... But say somewhere in the near future you can pickup an eBook reader that is 10" for about $10-$20. Will reflowable be important?
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Bingo
My whole point is, that as larger screens become standard, and color enters the market, a format that can handle very complex static layouts, such as magazines, will become dominant. And it will have to handle reflow for simple text on smaller screens.
The only reason I am arguing for PDF is, that the earlier a single format is established, the sooner the general public will embrace it, and publishers will be more apt to spend the resources to output to it. But it has to be a format which supports everything, from the very simple, to the very complex.
And PDF is the only one I currently know of, that can handle all of it. You can tag it, you can embed video and links into it, you can embed fonts, you can search within it, you can set the layout, or make it reflowable.... It supports both Mac and PC (stuff like DRM-ed .mobi doesn't.)
I wish there was something open-source like it, but there isn't.