[Ed_Grey]

I'll put in a plug for Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net), who use online volunteers (including me and anyone who signs up) to publish public domain e-books. That's where Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org) gets most of its books.

I'll also put in a good word for archive.org, which has optical scans of a lot of public domain texts, as well as music, film, video, and archived earlier versions of websites.

I favor libraries having their own ebook service, and especially offering the best books for self-education and research, and not getting cluttered with the formulaic read-one-and-you've read-them-all Harlequins and whatever. There are a lot of great books that are hard to get. There's no problem getting bestsellers.