Darnton says:
“…we should not abandon Google’s dream of making all the books in the world available to everyone. Instead, we should build a digital public library, which would provide these digital copies free of charge to readers. Yes, many problems — legal, financial, technological, political — stand in the way. All can be solved.”
And he’s right…
Virtual Democracy 
The digital public library movement (Sloan/Harvard) is one potential next step.