More on ebooks - they still have a way to go?

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has published a report on ebooks titled E-Books in Research Libraries: Issues of Access and Use.
After a brief history of ebooks (definitions, ebook readers,who invented ebooks, growing importance), the report discusses the themes drawn from a literature review. These include:

• confusion and instability in the ebook market - vendors, technologies and business models are evolving;
• issues of access and management - licensing models can be grouped into broad categories including print, database, and open access;
• rights, values and strategies for management - libraries and vendors have differing values;
• differences between access and use of print books and ebooks and the impact on scholarship;
• use for interlibrary loan (or not);
• jurisdictional conflicts (as with journal licenses);
• how different licenses deal with reserves, multiple copies and persistent URLs;
• digital rights management (DRM) - a major difference between ebooks and ejournals; and
  
• impact on scholarship - the 'literature does show that ease of access and ease of use will determine the success of e-books in the academic environment'.

The report concludes with recommendations for future action for the CARL Copyright Committee and expresses concerns about reductions in user rights.