Google has announced they’re providing more than 1 million free public domain books for Sony’s eBook Store. These books cover many genres, for example, historical texts, romance novels, and some classics. Sony now has a broader range of books for its customers on their own book and could possibly attract some new customers with Google’s help.

Google digitized these books for the Sony eBook Store as part of their Google Books project. They are available in EPUB format and are formatted to work on the Sony eBook reader. Any Sony eBook reader owners in the U.S can download these titles and transfer them to their PRS-505 or PRS-700. However, new customers to the eBook Store who would like these titles must first set up an account and then download Sony’s free eBook Library Software. Both Sony and Google can benefit from this partnerships; Sony by introducing new content for their eBook store and Google gets exposure for their Google Books Project.

(Via CrunchGear)