Yeah, I gotta agree.
There was a recent post about how much of L. Sprague de Camp's works are going to finally be available as e-books.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=148527
The price? $9.99 each.
No thanks. I'm a big fan of his and probably have half of them in paperback. And I'd love to get the other half. But not for $10 a pop, especially as these books were typically not very long (200 pages at most).
Ditto for another series of books I loved as a kid - The Pelbar Cycle. I had them all in paperback but Kindle edition? $9.99.
In both cases, the authors are long dead. I have to think that really plays a role. Whatever relative owns the rights doesn't really care, so they sell the rights to greedy, unscrupulous companies...