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I've read on other forums that it is difficult to reprint ebooks of stuff like thieves world. The problem is that each story carries it's own copyright, and once the original pb goes out of print, it's difficult to get all the rights back again. If the paper version is still in print, then it is easier to reprint, and try for an ebook edition, but once the rights have dispersed it's a pain to re-assemble the anthology. The original Wild Cards stories are similar, and there were other shared-world-anthology that all have the same problem, with less fame and exposure.
Back in the 80s, I heard authors at SF Cons say that their story in Tales of the Vulgar Unicorn got them more royalties than most of their full length novels. But they only hang together in a set - when some of them were reprinted separately (by author), they didn't do as well.
Yet another argument for a real rights-clearing mechanism.
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