Re:problems with LaTeX and e-books (Score 1)

The problem is not LaTeX, but TeX itself: it is fundamentally geared toward rendering text as glyphs at a specific size, then grouping those together to make lines, and arranging lines to paragraphs. That is all it ever does, and it is fantastic at doing it.

LaTeX is simply the *wrong* tool for the job of writing ebooks in epub and mobi, which need to have a dynamic document flow. LaTeX makes a very static, brittle document flow, because it was meant to. That was a feature, not a flaw.

What we need is a good workflow from one source format (like restructuredtext, markdown, etc.) into multiple good output formats (LaTeX/PDF, mobipocket / Kindle, epub, HTML). The closest I know of is Sphinx, but its epub output is in its infancy, and it has no support for the mobi / azw formats yet.