Apparently publishers have seriously been turning the screws on libraries wrt to license fees for ebooks and audiobooks, so the current golden age of getting them from the library may be ending.
Of course they would do that. It's one of the last places where you don't have to pay to exist, and where you can be educated and entertained without paying those companies.
[0]: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135639385/libraries-publishe...