Let My Ebooks Go!

Just came across this excellent post on ebooks and DRM by the Librarian in Black - she makes a compelling case for librarians banding together and forcing a change in the current ebooks landscape (where everything is so locked down by DRM that users don't have a chance of borrowing the ebooks they want at libraries within a reasonable timeframe).

I really hope this gains some momentum - otherwise, we are going to lose our users on the digital front. Because no one wants to spend that much pain and effort to get an ebook or audiobook, even if it is 'free' - the temporal and emotional costs are going to send people to Amazon, B&N, iTunes, and pretty much anywhere else.

And that would be a terrible waste - why bother adding ebooks to our collection if we can't let our users really use them?