With the advent of eBooks, aren’t libraries shrinking?
No matter how popular eBooks are, they aren’t uniformly available at libraries and won’t be in the future. Major publishers like Macmillan and Simon & Schuster refuse to license their eBooks for free circulation at libraries. So if you want to read Stephen King or Mary Higgins Clark for free, you’ll have to borrow a printed book. Those who do license eBooks to libraries do so on a restricted basis. As long as people want free access to books and information, libraries will need to maintain collections of physical books.
