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Originally Posted by Hadrien
When I have a RTF file on my reader and it's lacking hyphenation, zooming in and out is pretty much useless for me, the justified text is way too ugly for my taste with all these whitespaces around.
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Hyphenation is a function of the program that created the RTF, not a problem with RTF.
Zooming is a function of the reader, not RTF.
Just because your reader poorly supports RTF doesn't mean that RTF is a poor format.
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Originally Posted by Hadrien
I see too many people screaming around that PDF is dead.
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PDF has no benefits and significant drawbacks when used for eBooks. For eBooks, read on small devices, PDF is dead.
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Originally Posted by Hadrien
Well, as long as no reflowable format provides similar formatting features, PDF won't be dead. When such a format appears and start being widely available for mobile readers, then both reflowable and page-oriented formats that we know of will be dead.
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We don't need similar formatting features. The vast majority of books sold today do not require anything more than some text highlighting (i.e. bold, underline, etc.). The old page-oriented book idea does not make sense for eBooks.
What we need is to rethink how books are displayed to the user. With eBooks the page-oriented, big margins, absolute positioning (i.e. everything that PDF is) simply doesn't make sense anymore.