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It looks like most of the folks in this discussion are of the North American persuasion. Here in France, various sorts of blank media (blank tapes, CDs and DVDs) are assessed a tax that is supposed to go toward compensating the artists who produce the various works assumed to be downloaded to the blank media.
Frankly, it's a royal PITA to those of us who buy large quantities of blank media to use for strictly IT purposes (copying business files or making restore disks for customers) but I'm sure they could use some variation of the idea to assess a "royalty" to library copies of e-books to cover the right to loan out the books. Or, that idea of simply assessing the libraries based on which books they have available for loan at the first of the year would work, too. (Though that would also encourage the libraries to get rid of e-books that weren't circulating, which might not be such a good thing.)
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