These concerns are commonly talked about - the technological barriers forced on library patrons through DRM, above market pricing for libraries and restrictions around concurrent use or number of loans - all of which you can read about in many other places.
Gary Price added some of his own comments and one idea in particular grabbed my attention.
He suggests that one of the threats to libraries from subscription based services like Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and now Oyster and Scribd, is not that it makes the use of ebooks harder for libraries and their customers, but rather that they…
"take mindshare away from the library as a source for all types of content and overall, promote the idea that libraries and librarians are not relevant"
Gary Price: “E-Books in Libraries, 2013 Has Been a Year of Small Victories and Bigger Battles”. InfoDocket, November 2013.
