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I think for text books etc. resizable and reflowable text is no problem--it already works well.
It gets trickier with things like magazines, graphic novels etc. The "art" of the layout is a lot of the appeal, and allowing reflowing, resizing etc. really ruins that. That's why I don't bother with something like Newsweek on my kindle and keep my print subscription, it just loses too much in the e-transition.
So I'm not sure we'll ever see magazines make a good transition if they have to be resizable and reflowable. They really just need to be on a larger screen and in a font that's good enough for most people who aren't legally blind etc.--just like the print versions--if it's ever going to be a satisfactory substitute for print versions.
Novels are easy. Text is text, doesn't matter as much how it flows (as long as it maintains paragraphs etc.) or what size or font it is.
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