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The market for hardbacks is entirely different to the market for ebooks, just as it was different to the market for paperbacks and the market for second hand/library books.
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Not entirely. I buy what's available when I want to read it. If the ebook is available then fine, I'll buy it. If not, I'll buy the hardback.. with hardly a glance at the price. You could argue that I'm in the minority there, but since I
know there are others like me... the "entirely different market" theory just doesn't hold true across the board, there's still a lot of crossover—the continued success of the current (old) system proves that. They'll change that system when hardbacks stop making them money, but not before.
You simply pay more to read something when it's first released. That's the way it's always been. Why would ebooks change that?