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So far Public & school libraries have shown least progress in eBook adoption (about 5%), librarian mostly blame publishers for their inflexible "eBook Licensing" that are very expensive, baffling checkout schemes (like 26 checkout before it expire), create difficulties in sharing, and do not guarantee long term preserv-ability due to DRM.

I am thinking if eBook adoption gets a boost in libraries what will be the role of libraries both independent and school based? Other than website administrator for their 3M or Overdrive account management what will they do (I am not saying print will go anytime soon, so they will have work), publishers at least do have the copyright ownership for their eBooks for a sufficient future, but as nobody really need to visit libraries and when they go digital they must be scaled down drastically.

What do you think, friction in eBook adoption in schools is causes by both publishers as well libraries?