Public Library eBook Ideas:

• Family and personal stories
• Local issues and local history
• Local hiking and trail guides
• Obscure topics not covered by traditional publishing
• Teen perspectives: poetry, short fiction, graphic novels
• Budding writers, writers groups, NaNoWriMo
• Writers festival related contest/submissions
• Create how-to guides for research, geneology, etc
  

Self-Publishing and Academic Libraries - Robert P. Holley

Academic Library eBook Ideas:

• Create coursepacks from already-licensed content or open educational resources
  
• Publish lecture notes
  
• Easily share theses/dissertations
  
• Publish academic research
  
• NaNoWriMo
• Post-secondary journalism, creative writing students