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It does seem odd that there aren't very many quality cook books in ebooks given that there are literally thousands of them out there. I only have five (Betty Crocker, Better Homes and Gardens, James Peterson's book on sauces (pretty good), The Food Lab and The Flavor Bible) and the last three are more for experimenting with recipes than anything else.
One of the things that I do is keep my favorite recipes in an app for easy access. I use Paprika Recipe Manager, which is available both on the mac and iPad (I like to enter on the mac and use the iPad when I cook). I have an old collection of cookbooks (obligatory Betty Crocker plus an assortment of ethnic and local cookbooks) plus family recipes that have been passed down.
The major issue that I have with most famous chief cookbooks is that they assume you have the wide array of ingredients that are common in restaurants, which tends to make most of the dishes kind of expensive to fix. The other big issue is most cookbooks tend to assume a family of four. Apparently, singles and couples aren't the target audience.
I use the web a lot for recipes. I will also note dishes that I like in various restaurants and see what I can find that matches those.
I think that one of the major things about cookbooks is that there are a lot of fads that come and go pretty quickly. Also, cooking tends to be a very individualist thing.
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