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"we're sticking with PDF first, because generating PDF with LaTeX is much more advanced than any other format."
lol, interesting reasoning. I'm still not sure why you have to pick just one format.
"A bot could do it, but I'm not sure that it'll do it quite well."
The best scheme would have bots and humans working together. And the "I'm not sure" sounds like you haven't even sufficiently studied the problem.
Honestly, I'm failing to see the benefit of dynamically generating books from a database if the point isn't to have the freedom to generate them in a thousand different ways.
You're also kind of saying, "we're gonna spend all this energy delivering books dynamically through a database, but what we really care about is user-generated books and rss newspapers. And that is the reason we won't spend more energy on the database." Either focus on the latter and generate the books beforehand (like mobileread or whatnot) or really bring the book database component to its full potential. Quite telling was your response to me of, "well, the way we solve the database load problem is by hoping that 90% of people don't download from the database." A weird compromise between the two is just wasted effort and will look good only to a professor, not the public.
"As for PDF, I've read 10 books in PDF already and the overall experience was nice."
pdf readability depends on the font size... regarding which, it seems, there is zero flexibility and you can't even use the Size button.
Sorry about coming on a little strong, but I find that it's always helpful to tackle the tough questions in the beginning, before it turns out that the potential answers can no longer affect the course of development.
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