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If it was purely about sales then that might be the case, but publishers seem to look at hardback releases as a premium product that is just as much about the marketing as anything else, whether its getting more people into a shop in general in the case of the really big books or drawing attention to the paperback release and/or back catalogue of the author in question. Until the ebook market gets bigger it just doesn't seem like they would rush to change things for its benefit, especially if it lost out minor benefits like people buying the hardback to get it early and then later on also picking up the ebook too.
Anyway, I have more than enough books I already have or want that I think I can survive if they don't rush to give us sensible prices for books as soon as they come out and to be honest I find them trying to charge more than paperbook prices for back catalogue releases on ebook more of a pain than this stuff.
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