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I hate to admit it, but you're right... I WANT things to proceed in a logical, rational way, and the often just DON'T!
For example, in the earlier post, emellaich, commented on things going on between publisher and library, patron and library... Where I have a problem with his/her analysis is that I don't see a difference between paper and e-book. If I can go to the library and get Tom Clancy's "Locked On" on PAPER, HOW does it benefit the publisher or the library or me if I can't get it as an ebook? I"ll either read it on paper, or not read it at all.
And if I haven't read Tom Clancy before, and Locked On would have been my introduction to him, and/or I take him off my author list because I'm irritated that is publisher won't make the book available as an ebook in my library, there's LESS chance that I'll read other Tom Clancy books, which reading would increase the demand so the publisher can sell other ebooks to the library and on and on...
It sounds to me like the kind of short-term mindset of a company that's going out of business... "We'll keep going the way we are, and get as much money as we can this quarter, and next quarter will have to take care of itself."
BUT, as you said, I'm clearly on the wrong side of the looking glass!
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