The pandemic has our communities consuming e-books and e-audiobooks at a record pace. But many publishers highly inflate prices for e-books or won’t sell to libraries at all; which of course means that not everyone has the same access to information through their local public library.
Librarians in Massachusetts have had enough and are teaming up with lawmakers to demand a new deal for libraries:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/31/business/libraries-demand-new-deal-ebooks/