Freeing the words

This may more aptly be called the battle for the words. Google sounds like the want to have control of the words, to an extent. I can understand not wanting one private company to have control over every book scanned onto the Internet, but, is it a better idea to pay to put it there? If you had to pay for viewing a book it would go against what the library stands for, which is, in my opinion, offering information for free. I guess it could be argued both ways. Google doesn't charge the library to scan in the books, but they charge the user to read entire texts. The Open Content Alliance will charge the libraries to scan in the books and then offers the books free to the users. So I guess the question becomes who should pay, the libraries or the users? If the library pays, where would that money come from? Would it turn out to be something the users pay for through their taxes? Would the people be paying for it either way? If so, will it become a question of which way makes the person feel like they aren't paying for it?