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Originally Posted by frabjous
Ross Moore: "Towards tagged PDF"
Kaveh Bazargan: "TeX as an ebook reader"
The first suggests that they're working to make it so that pdfLaTeX handles inserting tags, for properly reflow-able, cut-and-paste-able PDF output from TeX source.
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It rather means "someone has some ideas", more than "they're working"
I'm not sure, however, which PDF readers (if any) properly us tagged PDFs.
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The second suggests that packages, or perhaps even new output profiles, are being worked on for .tex source to create ebooks... (A TeX>ePub profile even?) ... although it's hard to tell from the title.
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I'd say (and what Abecedary says seems to confirm it) that it's almost the opposite. It's not using TeX to create ebooks, but to
display them, which would involve some kind of ebook->TeX conversion, even if it's hidden. One of first (and easier, I think) things ebook readers need is to improve the paragraph breaking algorithm, and using TeX's for that is an obvious way.