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I'm a little late to the convo here, and didn't really feel like looking through the wholee thread.
Your idea (which has been brought up before here), is a cool one, but it has many pitfalls and is unrealistic. Frankly, I'd rather be fighting for lower prices on ebooks, or getting more ebooks out there. Publishers and booksellers are in this business to make money, and your plan will most likely involve losses on their part, even with a nominal fee. I can't get St Martins Press to even charge the same price for an ebook as the paperback version. I think things like that are more important than asking for mostly free copies of books I already have that I *might* reread in the future.
Now, should you be entitled to scan and convert the books you own yourself into an ebook for your own personal use? Yes, I think so.
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