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"The books we publish are typically very specialist - monographs of a professor's life work on say Ottoman artefacts - and would normally sell just 500 copies at most. Through Google book search we've got a free marketing tool reaching audiences we'd have no hope of reaching otherwise..."
– Ben Stebbing, Head of Sales and Marketing, Manchester University Press
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"At the risk of sounding like a big head, I've got as much experience publishing online as anybody, and it's my opinion that Google Books can only help book sales. I'm also happy that a book of translations I spent three years working on is in the collections of the libraries in the Google library program, because it will now be preserved for posterity so everybody can laugh at what a bad translator I am."
– Morris Rosenthal, Publisher, Foner Books
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"The Google book search programme will take Indian publishers to the world market. Today, you may not find books on Vedas or Indian culture on the web but with the Google programme the Indian book market will boom."
– Priyanka Malhotra, Special Projects Officer, Full Circle
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"The most impressive and beneficial aspect of Google Books to me is the private, easy, individual and independent access to the world's great literature and historic archives for the disabled and elderly, who cannot easily travel to their local libraries, and who prefer not to burden others more than is necessary. This program offers them the opportunity of exploring the excitement and mystery of the world we live in without the physical necessity of travel."
– Terry Smith, Publisher, Kekionga Press
(From an email)

"Google continues to earn my confidence, both as a book publisher, and an industry observer. You guys are doing great things for the book world. I look forward to seeing what unfolds in 2006, and thank you for your gifts to all of us who love the printed word."
– Danny O. Snow, Publisher, Unlimited Publishing
(From an email)

"Google is the best, most profound influence to have arrived in the publishing area in living memory."
– David Fraser, Digital Publishing Solutions
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