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All of which creates a lot of work because:
The best scanners still make a number of mistakes in optically recognizing the page.
Epubs reflow, which means that there is no fixed layout to the page.
Most ereading devices are smaller, which means that if it is published as a hardback, it needs to be re-laid out for the smaller format.
Eink readers are only gray/black and white and not as sharp as a printed page by a long shot.
If produced electronically to begin with it is much less work, so long as the text is not heavily formatted. Much heavy formatting doesn't translate well to many readers.
Calibre can convert to/from many file formats and it is a free program. Its only shortcoming is that its output, which is quite useable, can be hard to edit and figure out if you want to tweak it.
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