How Libraries Could Reassert Themselves?

“Google does not have to eliminate the market in printed books to make this impossible. It merely has to shrink it so much that the price of books goes right down again. If no one gets paid for writing books, fewer will be written, which may not be an unmixed catastrophe, but very much fewer really good ones will be written. The only way out of this, it seems to me, is for libraries to pay for the right to distribute electronic texts.”