Will the public lending right survive the advent of the e-book?

The Always Helpful Lee Hadden pointed me to this story by Lesley Ellen Harris, editor at Copyrightlaws.com . She has written an interesting Editorial on eBooks. She talks about \"public lending right\" with respect to e-books and electronic libraries. She says makes sense to extend the PLR to e-books and electronic libraries.
It\'ll be interesting to see what happens.