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thats your interpretation. when the real reasons can be all manner of things. from simply not having the time to properly create the ebook, the publisher who created the paper version not operating in your country, ongoing negotiations with publishers who do operate in your country, no time to negotiate with publishers in your country, the publisher being too busy and so they have a backlog of stuff to edit before publication, various timing considerations such as wanting to give time for the first run of hardcovers to sell through before publishing the paperback and ebook versions. maybe they have marketing things to consider before publishing. maybe they want to coordinate the timing of one version with the release of a new book so that people can grab the older one to bring them up to speed for the new one.
i could go on an on with this wall o' text but the point being that there are a thousand and one reasons why the ebook is not available legitimately to you now. pricing is a mix of [how much it cost to make] + [how much we'd like to profit] + [how much the retail market will bear] no one is thinking "lets price this so that this group over here cant afford to buy it" . they are thinking "if i price it that low ill lose money".
but thats one of the reasons lending libraries exist. if you cant afford to buy books, the community has a collection available to lend free to anyone.
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