I totally agree. There should be state owned or supported digital libraries with content freely available to the public.

Not saying there should not be paper based books in libraries as well, digital might just be a more efficient means of content delivery. Perhaps it could even operate like a library, you check out a book for a limited period of time after which it expires and someone else can check it out.

Then depending on how many licences were purchases for the content, the number of concurrent loans would need to be limited to that number, or something along those lines.

Perhaps an NGO or NPO could run a digital library and also better manage that type of infrastructure.