Well, it would be nice if I could still direct interested parties to
WotC's PDFs of out-of-print material.
Instead, I'll go for Goblinoid Games'
Labyrinth Lord and
Mutant Future, with high-quality free PDFs
and spiffy bound books (LL even via game stores). I look forward to the availability of
OSRIC in the latter format, and in the meantime will make do with my stock of used AD&D books.
(OSRIC v.2 seems to me too heavy a job to print at home, and I reckon the
4E books are even more so -- so I wonder how much pirates really cut into book sales.)