Books LLC
Encyclopedia
Books LLC is an American publisher and a book sales club
based in Memphis, Tennessee
.
paperback and downloadable compilations of English texts and documents from open knowledge
sources such as Wikipedia
. Books LLC's copy of English Wikipedia is republished by Google Books. Titles are also published in French
and German
respectively under the names "Livres Groupe" and "Bücher Gruppe". Books do include URLs of photos instead of the iconography of the original documents. 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 respectively 224,460 and 11,887 titles.
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:...
based in Memphis, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
.
Print on demand and electronic products
Books LLC publishes print on demandPrint on demand
Print on demand , sometimes called, in error, publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received...
paperback and downloadable compilations of English texts and documents from open knowledge
Open Knowledge
Open Knowledge is a term used to denote a set of principles and methodologies related to the production and distribution of knowledge works in an open manner...
sources such as Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
. Books LLC's copy of English Wikipedia is republished by Google Books. Titles are also published in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
respectively under the names "Livres Groupe" and "Bücher Gruppe". Books do include URLs of photos instead of the iconography of the original documents. 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 respectively 224,460 and 11,887 titles.
Different imprint and book club names used by Books LLC
In brackets: kind of material published and sold.- Books LLC or Books Group (English WikipediaEnglish WikipediaThe English Wikipedia is the English-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Founded on 15 January 2001 and reaching three million articles by August 2009, it was the first edition of Wikipedia and remains the largest, with almost three times as many articles as the next...
) - General Books LLC (public domainPublic domainWorks are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
material scanned and recognized by OCROptical character recognitionOptical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping...
) - 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)
- Livres Groupe (French WikipediaFrench WikipediaThe French Wikipedia is the French language edition of Wikipedia, spelt Wikipédia. This edition was started in March 2001, and has about articles as of , making it the third-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English-language and German-language editions...
) - Bücher Gruppe (German WikipediaGerman WikipediaThe German Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and mostly publicly editable online encyclopedia.Founded in March 2001, it is the second-oldest and, with over articles, the second-largest edition of Wikipedia, behind the English Wikipedia...
)
See also
- Amazon.com controversies
- VDM Publishing
- Philip M. ParkerPhilip M. ParkerPhilip M. Parker holds the INSEAD Chair Professorship of Management Science at INSEAD . He has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar books from a template which is filled with data from database and internet searches...
External links
- Books LLC
- Debora Weber-Wulff: German Libraries Avoiding Fake Publishers. Copy, Shake, and Paste. A blog about plagiarism from a German professor, written in English.