The Role of Libraries in the eBook Revolution

This NPR Story discusses our future in the world of eBooks.  Will we become obsolete?  Will publishers go broke?  Harper Collins 26-checkout limitation infuriated most, but got us talking.

Some suggest we lease content from the publisher, kind of like our databases.  And I think this is probably the future.  Which is unfortunate. 

But Eli Neiberger of Ann Arbor District Library has a different idea: "The goal of the library is to obtain the ability to distribute content to its public. And if we can do that easier and more cheaply with the rights holder or the artist themselves and they make more money on it, then it may be heretical — but the future usually is."