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FWIW, the old tradition of using roman numerals for frontmatter, then arabic for the balance was done so that new editions of a book could be issued w/o re-numbering the main text block if only a page or two was added to the frontmatter.
While the expense argument doesn't apply to ebooks, having page numbers be invariant between editions does have a certain appeal and could probably be handled better in the reader interface, say have a dialog which pops up when one begins to enter a page number:
FM ____ Text ____ Print edition ____
Where entering a folio in the first field would take one to the roman numeraled frontmatter sections, the middle to the text block, the last could be the pages as they are in the printed edition.
William
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