I ask for your assistance. If you are a librarian, or have written a book for the library professional audience, what do you think of this idea? * We create a petition, circulated among all professional library publishing houses. * The petition states our strong desire to donate an e-book copy of works we have written to a library of our choice. I'm not asking to "lease a copy to a library through a third party." I'm petitioning, perhaps in violation of contracts that were framed a long time ago, to give ownership of a copy to a library that can check it out to one person at a time, with DRM-management. Or without, if you have strong feelings about that. * We assert, as authors and librarians, our belief that books should be owned and managed by libraries. We protest the disappearance of ownership. * We assert, as authors and librarians, that it's absurd that a book that costs nothing to print, bind, and distribute should cost MORE than print. It should cost less....