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I'm in the camp that doesn't understand why there isn't more focus on backlist.
Provided the rights have been assembled -- by the author, by the agent or by the print publisher -- it is a relatively small investment to have the title scanned, professionally proof-read against the original, a new cover created and the book inserted into the re-release schedule. If there are multiple titles in the author backlist, it's trivial to create some sort of theme and use that for some rudimentary promotion.
It's not free to do the above, but it's certainly small change. Provided the material has intrinsic worth, having the ebook for sale will generate more revenue than being out of print. And, this is a one-time conversion which holds its value until the title slides into public domain, potentially several decades from now.
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