Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print
and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. 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.The Google Books initiative has been hailed for its
potential to offer unprecedented access to what may become the largest
online body of human knowledge and promoting the democratization of
knowledge. However, it has also been criticized for potential
copyright violations, and lack of editing to correct the many errors
introduced into the scanned texts by the OCR process.As of October
2015[update], the number of scanned book titles was over 25 million,
but the scanning process has slowed in American academic libraries.
Google estimated in 2010 that there were about 130 million distinct
titles in the world, and stated that it intended to scan all of them.
As of October 2019[update], Google celebrated 15 years of Google Books
and provided the number of scanned books as more than 40 million
titles.
and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. 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.The Google Books initiative has been hailed for its
potential to offer unprecedented access to what may become the largest
online body of human knowledge and promoting the democratization of
knowledge. However, it has also been criticized for potential
copyright violations, and lack of editing to correct the many errors
introduced into the scanned texts by the OCR process.As of October
2015[update], the number of scanned book titles was over 25 million,
but the scanning process has slowed in American academic libraries.
Google estimated in 2010 that there were about 130 million distinct
titles in the world, and stated that it intended to scan all of them.
As of October 2019[update], Google celebrated 15 years of Google Books
and provided the number of scanned books as more than 40 million
titles.
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