Books LLC is an American publisher and a
book sales club
A book sales club is a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books. It is more often called simply a book club, a term that is also used to describe a book discussion club, which can cause confusion.
How book sales clubs work
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based in
Memphis
Memphis most commonly refers to:
* Memphis, Egypt, a former capital of ancient Egypt
* Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city
Memphis may also refer to:
Places United States
* Memphis, Alabama
* Memphis, Florida
* Memphis, Indiana
* Memp ...
,
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
. Its primary work is collecting
Wikipedia
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and
Wikia
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articles and selling them as printed and downloadable books.
Print-on-demand and electronic products
Books LLC publishes
print-on-demand
Print on demand (POD) is a printing technology and business process in which book copies (or other documents, packaging or materials) are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints of single or small quantities. While oth ...
paperback and downloadable compilations of English texts and documents from
open knowledge
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sources such as
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...
.
Books LLC's copies of the English Wikipedia are republished by
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name 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 c ...
. Titles are also published in French and German respectively under the names "Livres Groupe" and "Bücher Gruppe".
Books' publications do not include the images from the original Web documents but, in their place,
URLs pointing to the Web images. According to the FAQ page: “We understand how annoying that can be for the reader. But our first priority has to be respecting copyright laws. In addition, the resolution of the online photos are not high enough to print in a book.”
In 2009, Books LLC and its sister imprint General Books LLC produced 224,460 and 11,887 titles respectively.
Imprint and book club names
In brackets: kind of material published and sold.
* Books LLC or Books Group (
English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia is, along with the Simple English Wikipedia, one of two English-language editions of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was founded on January 15, 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition, and, as of
, has the most arti ...
)
* General Books LLC (
public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work
A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art), dance, writing (literature), filmmaking, ...
material scanned and recognized by
OCR)
* General Books Club (public domain material)
* Genbooks.net (public domain material)
* Million-books.com (public domain material)
* Rare Books Club (public domain material)
* Wiki Editions (public domain material and CC-BY-SA material)
[Example CC-BY-SA publication on Amazon.com]
RuneScape - Capes: Agility cape, Ancient cloak, Ardougne cloak 1, Ardougne cloak 2, Ardougne cloak 3, Ardougne cloak 4, Attack cape, Ava's ... Cape, Cape, Cape, Cape, Cape, Cape [Paperback]
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* Livres Groupe (French Wikipedia
The French Wikipedia (french: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. It has article ...
)
* Bücher Gruppe (German Wikipedia
The German Wikipedia (german: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.
Founded on March 16, 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia (after the English Wikipedia), ...
)
See also
*Amazon.com controversies
Amazon (company), Amazon.com has drawn criticism from multiple sources, where the ethics of certain business practices and policies have been drawn into question. Amazon has faced numerous allegations of Anti-competitive practices, anti-compet ...
*OmniScriptum
Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology.
The company publi ...
*Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker (born June 20, 1960) is an American economist and academic, currently the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar book ...
* PediaPress
References
External links
* Debora Weber-Wulff
German Libraries Avoiding Fake Publishers
Copy, Shake, and Paste. A blog about plagiarism from a German professor, written in English.
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