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Typesetting a book is a task that even today remains too complex for a machine to do, without some human/manual help. Even LaTeX requires a human eye and human judgment on how to resolve imperfections in the best typesetting it could come up with given its internal restrictions for a given paper size and font size. [...]
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True, only the human got get something "perfect".
BUT, do you think publisher are going to proofread that many versions ?They need to begin with doing it properly for one version. (Edit : and i need to proofread myself too!)
So, I definitively prefer a well done ePub than badly done pdf's.
E-reader will never have a "standard" in term of size and the rest. Different peoples, different needs.
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For example, if the reader increases the text size, a good layout engine should re-typeset the document according to the rules of typography as much as feasible - software will never be able to do that perfectly, but it ought to at least try. Right now, ePub doesn't even try to do that, and that's a shame, because following some of the more basic rules of typography really isn't that hard to do.
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Yes. That is what's is need. Send the ade crap to the hell (DRM and renderer) where it belong and do a proper ePub renderer.
Edit : Oups, got carried away there.