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Yeah, I suppose even if the bookstore were to go straight to the darknet whenever possible, quality isn't that great and some cleanup would be required, possibly more than the shop would be able to get reimbursed for.
If publishers were actually interested in converting customers to ebooks, they could set up a special discount deal with brick-and-mortar bookstores to do the swap.
Actually, there is a higher-quality source of user-scanned files that are legally available (in the US) to vision-impaired readers. Maybe book shops could gain legal access to those for a system like this. Then they could contribute newly scanned or proofed books back to that system, with a benefit both to vision-impaired readers and other swap shops.
Just a thought....
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