I, too, have a Kindle and am very happy with it for reading prose. As Roger says, it is essentially laziness on the part of the publishers. It strikes me that one small and possibly useful thing we could do is write letters of protest or complaint to the publishers guilty of this sloppiness. If they get enough letters showing that there are people who care about stanza breaks and indentations they might just bring the subject up at a board meeting.
There are many poets whose books I own which I would also like to have on my Kindle, for all the reasons given by Roger - especially for travel. So there the publishers are missing out on a possible double sale.
By the way, I now subscribe to the TLS on my Kindle, and it's definitely convenient that way. But they, too, take very little care about formatting for the electronic version.
Anyway, protest, protest, protest...
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