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Well, .... it doesn't matter what the consumers demand when it comes to publishers, (because publishers flat don't care), and publishers decide what gets released as ebooks and to libraries. What I'm hearing is the opposite, that publishers are deciding not to release ebooks to libraries, because they only get paid once for the book that way, and it can be lent thousands of times and never wears out (and therefore doesn't need to be replaced).
I don't know if maybe there's a way around that, by having consumers donate funds to their local libraries earmarked for ebooks. But the DRM on consumer ebooks is different than that on library ebooks (consumer books don't have the DRM that makes the file disappear after a set amount of time), so I'm not sure that's workable either.
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