Books LLC
{{short description|American publisher and book sales club}}
{{Update|date=January 2023}}
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| headquarters = Florida
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}}Book Publishers LLC formerly 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.{{Cite web
|last=Radnedge
|first=Aidan
|title=Wikipedia entries copied and sold as books
|work=Metro.co.uk
|publisher=Associated Newspapers Limited
|location=London
|access-date=2011-03-10
|date=2011-02-08
|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/news/854969-wikipedia-entries-copied-and-sold-as-books
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316014428/http://www.metro.co.uk/news/854969-wikipedia-entries-copied-and-sold-as-books
|archive-date=2011-03-16
|url-status=dead
}}
Print-on-demand and electronic products
Book Publishers LLC publishes print-on-demand paperback and downloadable compilations of English texts and documents from open knowledge sources such as Wikipedia.{{Cite news
|last=Weingarten
|first=Gene
|author-link=Gene Weingarten
|title=The book on Gene: It's less than you expect
|newspaper=Washington Post
|access-date=2010-12-14
|date=2010-09-12
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090304964.html
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111135147/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090304964.html
|archive-date=2010-11-11
|url-status=dead
|last=Thiel
|first=Thomas
|title=Wikipedia und Amazon: Der Marketplace soll es richten
|work=Faz.net
|publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
|language=de
|access-date=2010-12-06
|date=2010-09-27
|url=https://www.faz.net/s/RubCF3AEB154CE64960822FA5429A182360/Doc~E7A20980B9C0D46E99A9F60BC09506343~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123112821/http://www.faz.net/s/RubCF3AEB154CE64960822FA5429A182360/Doc~E7A20980B9C0D46E99A9F60BC09506343~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent~Afor~Eprint.html
|archive-date=2011-01-23
|url-status=live
|last=Rückert
|first=Hermann
|title=Copy and Paste als Geschäftsmodell: Amazon bietet die Plattform für tausende absurde Buchtitel
|trans-title=Copy and paste as business model: Amazon offers its platform to thousands of absurd book titles
|language=de
|work=Telepolis knews
|publisher= Heise online
|location=Hannover
|access-date=2010-12-07
|date=2010-09-20
|url=http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/148413
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923130602/http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/148413
|archive-date=2010-09-23
|url-status=dead
|last=Bateman
|first=Jessica
|title=Wikipedia articles copied and sold as books by US publisher
|work=Swns.com
|publisher=Small World News Service
|location=Bristol
|access-date=2011-02-19
|date=2011-02-08
|url=http://swns.com/wikipedia-articles-copied-and-sold-as-books-by-us-publisher-081117.html
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716172545/http://swns.com/wikipedia-articles-copied-and-sold-as-books-by-us-publisher-081117.html
|archive-date=2011-07-16
|url-status=dead
}} Book Publishers 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".{{Cite web
|last=Gary
|first=Nicolas
|title=Arnaque : refourguer des articles de Wikipedia compilés pour 11 €
|work=actualitté.com
|language=fr
|access-date=2010-12-12
|date=2010-10-14
|url=http://www.actualitte.com/actualite/22083-arnaque-vente-livres-articles-wikipedia.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226214824/http://www.actualitte.com/actualite/22083-arnaque-vente-livres-articles-wikipedia.htm
|archive-date=2010-12-26
|url-status=dead
|last=Birgé
|first=Jean-Jacques
|author-link=Jean-Jacques Birgé
|title=L'arnaque
|language=fr
|work=Mediapart.fr
|publisher=Mediapart
|access-date=2011-01-13
|date=2010-10-15
|url=http://www.mediapart.fr/club/blog/jean-jacques-birge/151010/larnaque
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018235814/http://www.mediapart.fr/club/blog/jean-jacques-birge/151010/larnaque
|archive-date=2010-10-18
|url-status=dead
|title=Wikipedia-Bücher: Geschäft mit freien Inhalten - Verschiedene Anbieter versuchen, mit Benutzer-generierten Inhalten von Wikipedia auf Amazon das große Geld zu machen
|language=de
|work=tt.com
|publisher=Tiroler Tageszeitung
|location=Innsbruck
|access-date=2010-12-14
|date=2010-09-21
|url=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
|archive-url=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
|archive-date=2011-07-17
|url-status=dead
}} 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.”{{Cite web
|title=Book Publishers LLC: Book Club FAQs
|work=Booksllc.net
|access-date=2010-12-12
|url=http://booksllc.net/faqs.cfm
|date=2010
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100716203156/http://booksllc.net/faqs.cfm
|archive-date=2010-07-16
|url-status=dead
}}
In 2009, Book Publishers LLC and its sister imprint General Book Publishers LLC produced 224,460 and 11,887 titles respectively.{{Cite web
|last=Strauss
|first=Victoria
|author-link=Victoria Strauss
|title=Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
|work=Sfwa.org
|publisher=SFWA and Writer Beware
|access-date=2010-12-21
|date=2010-05-23
|url=http://www.sfwa.org/2010/05/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030032151/http://www.sfwa.org/2010/05/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/
|archive-date=2010-10-30
|url-status=dead
|title=Bowker Reports Traditional U.S. Book Production Flat in 2009
|work=Bowker.com
|publisher=R.R. Bowker
|location=New Providence, New Jersey
|access-date=2010-12-21
|date=2010-04-14
|url=http://www.bowker.com/index.php/press-releases/616-bowker-reports-traditional-us-book-production-flat-in-2009
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220051104/http://www.bowker.com/index.php/press-releases/616-bowker-reports-traditional-us-book-production-flat-in-2009
|archive-date=2010-12-20
|url-status=dead
}}
Imprint and book club names
In brackets: kind of material published and sold.
- Book Publishers LLC or Books Group (English Wikipedia)
- General Book Publishers LLC (public domain material scanned and recognized by OCR){{Cite web
|title=General Book Publishers LLC: Book Club FAQs
|work=General-books.net
|access-date=2010-12-12
|url=http://www.general-books.net/faqs.cfm
|date=2010
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100628094831/http://www.general-books.net/faqs.cfm
|archive-date=2010-06-28
|url-status=dead
}}
- General Books Club (public domain material){{Cite web
|title=General Books Club: Select from a Million Books for Free
|work=Generalbooksclub.com
|access-date=2010-12-13
|date=2010
|url=http://generalbooksclub.com/about.cfm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211051537/http://generalbooksclub.com/about.cfm
|archive-date=2010-12-11
|url-status=dead
}}
- Genbooks.net (public domain material){{Cite web
|title=General Books - Search Amazon for our books
|work=Genbooks.net
|access-date=2011-06-17
|date=2010
|url=http://www.genbooks.net/
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330211507/http://www.genbooks.net/
|archive-date=2012-03-30
|url-status=dead
}}
- Million-books.com (public domain material){{Cite web
|title=Million-books.com: Book Club FAQs
|work=Million-books.com
|access-date=2010-12-12
|date=2010
|url=http://million-books.com/faqs.cfm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218111528/http://million-books.com/faqs.cfm
|archive-date=2010-12-18
|url-status=dead
}}
- Rare Books Club (public domain material){{Cite web
|title=Rare Books Club: FAQS
|work=Rarebooksclub.com
|access-date=2010-12-13
|date=2010
|url=http://rarebooksclub.com/faqs.cfm
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20100419042429/http://rarebooksclub.com/faqs.cfm
|archive-date=2010-04-19
|url-status=dead
}}
- Wiki Editions (public domain material{{Cite web
|title=Wiki Editions - Select from a Million Books for Free
|work=Wikieditions.com
|access-date=2011-08-17
|date=2011
|url=http://wikieditions.com/about.cfm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031095758/http://wikieditions.com/about.cfm
|archive-date=2011-10-31
|url-status=dead
- Livres Groupe (French Wikipedia)
- Bücher Gruppe (German Wikipedia)
See also
References
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External links
- Debora Weber-Wulff: [http://copy-shake-paste.blogspot.com/2011/09/german-libraries-avoiding-fake.html German Libraries Avoiding Fake Publishers]. Copy, Shake, and Paste. A blog about plagiarism from a German professor, written in English.
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