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I agree with your sidenote...one of my ebook frustrations is that I see 40-50 year old books being e-published at the same prices as a new book, while a paper copy in a used bookstore is a buck or less. Or you can get it used from Amazon for effectively the price of shipping/handling. It's especially annoying because a lot of these older novels are much shorter than the current thick tomes. I think there'd be a market for larger collections, especially of all of the classic authors. I'd be thrilled to get a complete Heinlein collection, or Clarke or whomever for a reasonable price. But there's no way I'm paying hundreds of dollars to get e-copies of books I already have physical copies of.
It's an area where the practical reality of converting and 'typesetting' a book with no digital original and the economic reality of the marketplace aren't quite in sync yet.
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