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Google Books is a search engine that lets you find and read books online through Google's database. It matters because it makes millions of books searchable and accessible to anyone with an internet connection, helping people discover and access written knowledge more easily.
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Google Books, formerly known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code name Project Ocean, is a service provided by Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives.
The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital inventory, was announced in December 2004.