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I completely agree—the main bottleneck here is the publishers, with only a few exceptions.
However, my request is about making the most of what publishers do offer (if they provide it at all) and ensuring that printed page numbers are displayed accurately.
This is also a matter of software implementation. For ePubs to be truly useful in academic contexts, precision is essential. After all, academics don’t just read books—they wrestle with them, dissect them, and footnote them to death. And for that, we need precision, not just polished formatting. So while aesthetics have their place, let’s not forget the poor scholars who just want to cite a page number without having to play detective.
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