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I would say that libraries are the dinosaurs in the room.
There's a recent story in my local paper about a city wanting to start a library. The tax to pay for it will be 20 cents for every $100 in taxable property you own.
Or basically, $2 for every $1,000. Have a modest (say $100,000) home, the library will cost you $200 a year.
How about this - everyone just keeps their money and uses it to buy the ebooks they want?
And ebooks are different from physical books. They don't wear out. If a library buys a book, it's going to be worn out after X amount of readers. An e-book wont. Is it fair to the author that one sale of his work will be readable to an infinite amount of readers? (Albeit sequential)
Public libraries were created (as opposed to private membership ones) supposedly to help give people access to books to educate themselves. With an e-reader, they don't need a library to get books for that, there's a wealth of free books out there.
But IMHO, they never should have been entertainment centers subsidized by taxes - providing movies, video games, and fictional book. But that's what they are now and seen as some sort of entitlement. "I want free books! I want free DVDs rentals! I want free video games!"
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