Books LLC

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Books LLC
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters location Memphis, Tennessee
Publication types Books
Official website booksllc.net

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]

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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]

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In brackets: kind of material published and sold.

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  2. ↑ Weingarten, Gene (2010-09-12). "The book on Gene: It's less than you expect". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2010-11-11. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
  3. ↑ Thiel, Thomas (2010-09-27). "Wikipedia und Amazon: Der Marketplace soll es richten". Faz.net (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Archived from the original on 2011-01-23. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
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  6. 1 2 Gary, Nicolas (2010-10-14). "Arnaque : refourguer des articles de Wikipedia compilés pour 11 €". actualitté.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2010-12-26. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
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  9. 1 2 "Books LLC: Book Club FAQs". Booksllc.net. 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-12. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
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  12. ↑ "General Books LLC: Book Club FAQs". General-books.net. 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-12. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  13. ↑ "General Books Club: Select from a Million Books for Free". Generalbooksclub.com. 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-11. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
  14. ↑ "General Books - Search Amazon for our books". Genbooks.net. 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  15. ↑ "Million-books.com: Book Club FAQs". Million-books.com. 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-12. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  16. ↑ "Rare Books Club: FAQS". Rarebooksclub.com. 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-13. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
  17. ↑ "Wiki Editions - Select from a Million Books for Free". Wikieditions.com. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-10-31. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
  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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