You mean "wouldn't sell at the same level as the ones they are currently pushing", don't you? But I do agree that they seem to have a "It's ours and you can't have any" attitude they've inherited from the 1600's.

If I could change only one part of the copyright law, it would be that copyright would fall into public domain automatically IF the originator no longer was in a position to benefit from said works AND the works in question where unavailable at a considerate price from the current holder for more than a year.

Cripes, that little change right there would guarantee digital support since you know they would neither print enough copies of older or more esoteric volumes to satisfy the restriction nor would they want to give up their claim to it.