Libraries increasingly face restrictive digital licensing terms that can make eBooks far more expensive than print, expire after a set number of checkouts or months, and limit libraries’ ability to preserve, share, or provide equitable access to digital books. The result is a system in which libraries can spend more and more money simply to keep access to books they once would have owned outright.

Now, a growing number of states are taking a different approach: changing the rules for library eBook contracts.

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