>Hoarding ebooks like physical properties is not a good way to behave. As someone who deals with e-books for libraries, I feel that frustration, but I also und

>Hoarding ebooks like physical properties is not a good way to behave. As someone who deals with e-books for libraries, I feel that frustration, but I also understand where publishers are coming from. They are doing everything they can to hold onto a business model they have been successful with. They also have authors to deal with, who have been successful with the same model and control the production of the product, to some extent. That said, I suspect many libraries would be willing to license e-books like they license journal content: on an all access subscription model.