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I think public libraries are going to have to move toward a model of only buying eBooks where they are granted ownership rights. Yes, it will mean listings of obscure eBooks from non-major publishing sources and not bestsellers.
It is one thing for me to "buy" a book knowing that I can take that DRM off within seconds and if not technically own my book, at least know that I will have a readable copy for as long as I choose to keep my readable copy .... no matter what all their technical blathering dictates. Libraries don't have that option.
It is just way too tenuous of a situation currently to ask libraries to put millions of dollars into a collection which can be pulled away from them at will - especially given some recent Publisher shenanigans of trying to pull previous purchases away from libraries.
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