Publisher's really are an issue. Unfortunately we haven't figured out a distribution process that has no bias. I honestly think libraries are capable of taking over publishing.

A national consortium of digital libraries would be dope! We have a consortium of digital resources held by academic libraries here in my province in Canada, it extends the resources available to the hundreds of thousands for students. It blows my mind thinking about it sometimes, but I'm a library nerd.

Even when you disregard the fact that most libraries that provide out of state services for a cost, they still benefit from this kind of usage. Stats are used for everything in libraries when justifying cost vs. use when answering to the body of people that fund the library. More use means costs are justified. This is also why a lot of academic libraries also provide public access even though the public doesn't necessarily fund the libraries of universities and colleges. Use your libraries, they are there to be used by you!