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Book Publishers LLC
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationFlorida
Publication typesBooks
Official websitebookpublishersllc.com

Book Publishers LLC formerly Books LLC is an American publisher and a book sales club based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Its primary work is collecting Wikipedia and Fandom articles and selling them as printed and downloadable books. In 2023, Book Publishers LLC transitioned to a hybrid publishing model, offering services tailored to the self-publishing market.[1]

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Book Publishers 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] 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".[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, Book Publishers LLC and its sister imprint General Book Publishers LLC produced 224,460 and 11,887 titles respectively.[10][11]

Imprint and book club names

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In brackets: kind of material published and sold.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Radnedge, Aidan (February 8, 2011). "Wikipedia entries copied and sold as books". Metro.co.uk. London: Associated Newspapers Limited. Archived from the original on March 16, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
  2. ^ Weingarten, Gene (September 12, 2010). "The book on Gene: It's less than you expect". Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 11, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  3. ^ Thiel, Thomas (September 27, 2010). "Wikipedia und Amazon: Der Marketplace soll es richten". Faz.net (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
  4. ^ Rückert, Hermann (September 20, 2010). "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]. Telepolis knews (in German). Hannover: Heise online. Archived from the original on September 23, 2010. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
  5. ^ Bateman, Jessica (February 8, 2011). "Wikipedia articles copied and sold as books by US publisher". Swns.com. Bristol: Small World News Service. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
  6. ^ a b Gary, Nicolas (October 14, 2010). "Arnaque : refourguer des articles de Wikipedia compilés pour 11 €". actualitté.com (in French). Archived from the original on December 26, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  7. ^ a b Birgé, Jean-Jacques (October 15, 2010). "L'arnaque". Mediapart.fr (in French). Mediapart. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  8. ^ a b "Wikipedia-Bücher: Geschäft mit freien Inhalten - Verschiedene Anbieter versuchen, mit Benutzer-generierten Inhalten von Wikipedia auf Amazon das große Geld zu machen". tt.com (in German). Innsbruck: Tiroler Tageszeitung. September 21, 2010. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  9. ^ a b "Book Publishers LLC: Book Club FAQs". Booksllc.net. 2010. Archived from the original on July 16, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  10. ^ Strauss, Victoria (May 23, 2010). "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics". Sfwa.org. SFWA and Writer Beware. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  11. ^ "Bowker Reports Traditional U.S. Book Production Flat in 2009". Bowker.com. New Providence, New Jersey: R.R. Bowker. April 14, 2010. Archived from the original on December 20, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  12. ^ "General Book Publishers LLC: Book Club FAQs". General-books.net. 2010. Archived from the original on June 28, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  13. ^ "General Books Club: Select from a Million Books for Free". Generalbooksclub.com. 2010. Archived from the original on December 11, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  14. ^ "General Books - Search Amazon for our books". Genbooks.net. 2010. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  15. ^ "Million-books.com: Book Club FAQs". Million-books.com. 2010. Archived from the original on December 18, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  16. ^ "Rare Books Club: FAQS". Rarebooksclub.com. 2010. Archived from the original on April 19, 2010. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  17. ^ "Wiki Editions - Select from a Million Books for Free". Wikieditions.com. 2011. Archived from the original on October 31, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  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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