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It's not just publishers. Authors sometimes insist on it as well. There are a number of book publishers that will sell you the paper or the ebook on their web site, including several that I use. No DRM either.
Of course, for the vast majority of books that I buy, the ebook comes out at the same time as the hardback, usually for considerably less than the hardback. That's big publishers, little publishers, best sellers and more specialized books. It really does seem to be the norm now. The last time that I was unable to get an ebook when the hardback came out was the last books from Jordan's Wheel of Time several years ago and that was because Jordan's widow insisted on it, not because the publisher wanted it.
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