Available, but not accessible? Investigating publishers' e-lending licensing practices.

Them article talsk about the investigation of publishers' licensing practices, which affect the books that public libraries can offer for e-lending. It reports declines in literary reading due to the emergence of alternative entertainment forms, competition from literary subscription services and widespread budget cuts. It also informs about e-books and e-lending that are disruptive technologies and their lending is critical to libraries’ abilities to satisfy social objectives.