Books LLC explained

Country:United States
Headquarters:Memphis, Tennessee
Publications:Books

Books LLC is an American publisher and a book sales club based in Memphis, Tennessee. Its primary work is collecting Wikipedia and Wikia articles and selling them as printed and downloadable books.[1]

Print-on-demand and electronic products

Books LLC publishes print-on-demand paperback and downloadable compilations of English texts and documents from open knowledge sources such as Wikipedia.[2] [3] [4] [5] Books LLC's copies of the English Wikipedia are republished by Google Books. Titles are also published in French and German respectively under the names "Livres Groupe" and "Bücher Gruppe".[6] [7] [8] 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.”[9]

In 2009, Books LLC and its sister imprint General Books LLC produced 224,460 and 11,887 titles respectively.[10] [11]

Imprint and book club names

In brackets: kind of material published and sold.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Radnedge . Aidan . Wikipedia entries copied and sold as books . . . . 2011-03-10 . 2011-02-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110316014428/http://www.metro.co.uk/news/854969-wikipedia-entries-copied-and-sold-as-books . 2011-03-16 . dead .
  2. News: Weingarten . Gene . Gene Weingarten . The book on Gene: It's less than you expect . Washington Post . 2010-12-14 . 2010-09-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101111135147/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090304964.html . 2010-11-11 . dead .
  3. Web site: Thiel . Thomas . Wikipedia und Amazon: Der Marketplace soll es richten . Faz.net . . de . 2010-12-06 . 2010-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110123112821/http://www.faz.net/s/RubCF3AEB154CE64960822FA5429A182360/Doc~E7A20980B9C0D46E99A9F60BC09506343~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent~Afor~Eprint.html . 2011-01-23 . live .
  4. Web site: Rückert . Hermann . Copy and Paste als Geschäftsmodell: Amazon bietet die Plattform für tausende absurde Buchtitel . Copy and paste as business model: Amazon offers its platform to thousands of absurd book titles . de . Telepolis knews . . . 2010-12-07 . 2010-09-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100923130602/http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/148413 . 2010-09-23 . dead .
  5. Web site: Bateman . Jessica . Wikipedia articles copied and sold as books by US publisher . Swns.com . . . 2011-02-19 . 2011-02-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716172545/http://swns.com/wikipedia-articles-copied-and-sold-as-books-by-us-publisher-081117.html . 2011-07-16 . dead .
  6. Web site: Gary . Nicolas . Arnaque : refourguer des articles de Wikipedia compilés pour 11 € . actualitté.com . fr . 2010-12-12 . 2010-10-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101226214824/http://www.actualitte.com/actualite/22083-arnaque-vente-livres-articles-wikipedia.htm . 2010-12-26 . dead .
  7. Web site: Birgé . Jean-Jacques . Jean-Jacques Birgé . L'arnaque . fr . Mediapart.fr . . 2011-01-13 . 2010-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101018235814/http://www.mediapart.fr/club/blog/jean-jacques-birge/151010/larnaque . 2010-10-18 . dead .
  8. Web site: Wikipedia-Bücher: Geschäft mit freien Inhalten - Verschiedene Anbieter versuchen, mit Benutzer-generierten Inhalten von Wikipedia auf Amazon das große Geld zu machen . de . tt.com . . . 2010-12-14 . 2010-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110717110718/http://portal.tt.com/csp/cms/sites/tt/%C3%9Cberblick/Freizeit%C3%BCberblick/Multimedia/1307149-6/wikipedia-b%C3%BCcher-gesch%C3%A4ft-mit-freien-inhalten.csp . 2011-07-17 . dead .
  9. Web site: Books LLC: Book Club FAQs . Booksllc.net . 2010-12-12 . 2010 . https://archive.today/20100716203156/http://booksllc.net/faqs.cfm . 2010-07-16 . dead .
  10. Web site: Strauss . Victoria . Victoria Strauss . Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics . Sfwa.org . . 2010-12-21 . 2010-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101030032151/http://www.sfwa.org/2010/05/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/ . 2010-10-30 . dead .
  11. Web site: Bowker Reports Traditional U.S. Book Production Flat in 2009 . Bowker.com . . . 2010-12-21 . 2010-04-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101220051104/http://www.bowker.com/index.php/press-releases/616-bowker-reports-traditional-us-book-production-flat-in-2009 . 2010-12-20 . dead .
  12. Web site: General Books LLC: Book Club FAQs . General-books.net . 2010-12-12 . 2010 . https://archive.today/20100628094831/http://www.general-books.net/faqs.cfm . 2010-06-28 . dead .
  13. Web site: General Books Club: Select from a Million Books for Free . Generalbooksclub.com . 2010-12-13 . 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101211051537/http://generalbooksclub.com/about.cfm . 2010-12-11 . dead .
  14. Web site: General Books - Search Amazon for our books . Genbooks.net . 2011-06-17 . 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120330211507/http://www.genbooks.net/ . 2012-03-30 . dead .
  15. Web site: Million-books.com: Book Club FAQs . Million-books.com . 2010-12-12 . 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101218111528/http://million-books.com/faqs.cfm . 2010-12-18 . dead .
  16. Web site: Rare Books Club: FAQS . Rarebooksclub.com . 2010-12-13 . 2010 . https://archive.today/20100419042429/http://rarebooksclub.com/faqs.cfm . 2010-04-19 . dead .
  17. Web site: Wiki Editions - Select from a Million Books for Free . Wikieditions.com . 2011-08-17 . 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111031095758/http://wikieditions.com/about.cfm . 2011-10-31 . dead .
  18. 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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