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"This historic settlement is a win for everyone. From our perspective, the agreement creates an innovative framework for the use of copyrighted material in a rapidly digitising world, serves readers by enabling broader access to a huge trove of hard-to-find books and benefits the publishing community by establishing an attractive commercial model that offers both control and choice to the rightsholder." -Richard Sarnoff, Chairman of the Association of American Publishers
"It's hard work writing a book and even harder work getting paid for it. As a reader and researcher, I'll be delighted to stop by my local library to browse the stacks of some of the world's great libraries. As authors, we appreciate payment when people use our work. This deal makes good sense." - Roy Blount Jr., President of the Authors Guild
"Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Today, together with the authors, publishers and libraries, we have been able to make a great leap in this endeavour. While this agreement is a real win-win for all of us, the real victors are the readers. The tremendous wealth of knowledge that lies within the books of the world will now be at their fingertips." - Sergey Brin, co-founder and President of Technology, Google