Publishers slow library e-books

U.S. libraries are struggling to get up to speed with the new way of reading books -- in digital format on e-readers, librarians and others say.

The Washington Post reported Saturday that in Maryland, for example, the state's libraries doubled their total of copyright e-books available to fewer than 10,000 titles in the past two years, while the number of e-book checkouts statewide nearly quadrupled to 266,000. The District of Columbia library system witnessed the number of people using their Kindles, Nooks and iPads to download books grow 116 percent from 2010 to 2011, the newspaper said