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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Not really. PDF has always been a page-oriented format - intended to reproduce the look-and-feel of a paper book.
That works fine if you are electronically distributing a book intended to be printed.
But if you want people to read such a document on devices with wildly different screen sizes, PDF fails horribly.
Only recently did PDF get an update to correct this deficiency, but the number of readers that support it, as well as the number of documents that support it, is extremely low.
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Well, PDF fails if you don't make PDF files the right size for these devices. If the file is suited for the device, it'll look great and it's much easier to have for example hyphenation on such a file than on RTF or LRF for the Sony Reader. You just need to generate custom PDFs instead of storing a whole lot of them. There's advantages with reflowable format too, mostly the fact that the same file will work ok everywhere, but a page-oriented format will look better if you do it the right way.
Oh and PDF support is everywhere, I really doubt it'll die anytime soon...