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The thing is, it seems to me that e-book costs are basically fixed. That is, the writing, editing proofing really only need to be done once, and it doesn't really matter if the book is a bestseller or a something 50 people will buy.
I guess bestsellers do have more professional editing and such, but in either case, the money spent on producing them is recouped after a fixed point. Anything after that is pure profit for the author/publisher.
Anyway, getting to my point, what really irks me is that because of tax reasons, a lot of publishers let books go out of print. But even though they were presumably happy with the original sales run, and made their money back, they now decide to charge full price (or more) for the e-book version. Which as far as I know, has no tax liabilities like keeping a warehouse full of books does.
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