The article isn't clear, but in the conclusion, the author is asking for libraries to have the legal right to remove ebook DRM, and to make copies of ebooks in

The article isn't clear, but in the conclusion, the author is asking for libraries to have the legal right to remove ebook DRM, and to make copies of ebooks in the course of routine maintenance. IMO, the article's title should say, "DRMed ebooks wear out faster than physical books." And that's clearly correct: digital data that you don't make copies of is quite physically fragile, and even if the physical media survives, it may be difficult or impossible to read it. (Reading data off an old IDE hard drive or Jazz drive, for example.)