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Glad to see your post, Trenien.
Why do scanners exist? It's a heck of a lot of work, 2 to 5 days per book if it's done right. The reason is lack of product. If you offer somebody a book at $5-$10 dollars (without DRM), only an idiot would scan it then. But how many books 30+ years old are out there to be bought as e-books? 1 in 10? 1 in 100? But they're still in copyright, so you're a crook of you scan, and you'll die of old age before either a legitimate e-copy, or P.D. will ever come...
And it's not like you actually depriving authors of compensation when there is no in-print version out there, anyway.
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