Most of the
aggregators offer various services other than
ebook distribution and aggregation such as
ebook conversion,
cover design, editing and some even have print - on - demand services.
The result of their work is a fully - functional platform that will soon enable hundreds of library systems to manage directly — rather than license via an
aggregator — a portion of their
ebook collections (the issue of intellectual property ownership, which would
cover ebooks, remains a topic of much debate, but one that does not seem to legally favor libraries despite some use of the word own rather than license).