Kessinger Publishing

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC is an American print-on-demand publishing company located in Whitefish, Montana, that specializes in rare, out-of-print books.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02FOB-medium-t.html | work=The New York Times | first=Virginia | last=Heffernan | title=Authors Unbound Online | date=2010-04-30}}(June 12, 2008) 'Love Letters' book in 'Sex and City' movie an imaginary tale, Albany Times Union (Albany, New York) In 2009, the company produced 190,175 titles and was reported to be the third-largest producer of "non-traditional" books that year, earning recognition from Kelly Gallagher.{{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/

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|archive-date=2010-10-30

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}}{{Cite web

|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

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The Register reported in 2009 that volume 1 of a book by Lafcadio Hearn was not available for a full preview at Google Books because it was marked as "copyrighted material" and offered for sale by Kessinger Publishing. According to the article, some "scholars were outraged" because the book was previously in the public domain (accused them of copyfraud), and criticized Kessinger Publishing for making the Internet copy of the book "useless to scholars" by forcing them to purchase it.{{cite web | title=Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain, How web giants are stealing the future of knowledge | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud/ | work=The Register | first=Charles | last=Eicher | date=2009-06-26 | access-date=2012-03-31}}