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I think a lot of the problem goes back to time. That is when the berne convention and other copyright laws were written there was no such thing as an ebook. I mean today (in theory) I could buy an ebook from a store in Switzerland for example and be reading it 5 minutes later, but when the laws were written the only thing that existed was paper copies of books. Books which may go out of print and only be findable in used book stores. That isn't the case any longer of course. I do have to wonder though, if the author is dead and his book is PD in his/her home country whose rights are really being protected? His (or rather his heirs) or the rights of publishing houses who might not have even known of his works til long after he had died?
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