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Everything in this thread seems to be dependent on the relationships between a library (or library system), Overdrive, and major publishers.
Are there other lending systems for ebooks that libraries could use? For example, does Smashwords have any standard way to get their books into a library? I realize that the product of major publishers has some implied level of quality, and that librarians want to control the content of their collections, but how do small publishers get ebooks into a library?
I know that several years ago, Baen books offered to let library systems load out their webscription programs, but at that time there were no systems in place to support that, and Baen didn't want DRM applied to their books. Has anyone come up with a better, or at least different method?
For reasons that are obvious given their previous actions, I don't expect Amazon to want to sponsor or be involved with a library loan program, but maybe Smashwords would?
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