But e-books are evil, an abomination and they price people out of reading? That is incendiary hyperbole with no foundation in fact. Incidentally, the guy is a lobbyist for libraries.

Yes, ebooks are different from paper books. They don't loan easily. They don't resell for charity well. They don't give a room that smell of paper, nor can you display them so house guests can see how smart you are. They do however have tons of other benefits. Things change. Problems appear, and so some people see an opportunity to write op-eds lamenting the passing of the world's glory, others try to fix them.

Libraries are a funny thing in a world where media is only artificially scarce, and the article doesn't even try to recognize this. If libraries allowed unlimited lending of all new books, nobody would buy new books because they can get the exact same experience from the library, so publishers obviously aren't going to allow that.