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Book Publishers LLC

American publisher and book sales club

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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 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.

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. 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". 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.”

In 2009, Book Publishers LLC and its sister imprint General Book Publishers LLC produced 224,460 and 11,887 titles respectively.

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)
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 and CC-BY-SA material)
Livres Groupe (French Wikipedia)
Bücher Gruppe (German Wikipedia)

References

Radnedge, Aidan. (February 8, 2011). "Wikipedia entries copied and sold as books". [[Associated Newspapers Limited]].
Weingarten, Gene. (September 12, 2010). "The book on Gene: It's less than you expect". Washington Post.
Thiel, Thomas. (September 27, 2010). "Wikipedia und Amazon: Der Marketplace soll es richten". [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]].
Rückert, Hermann. (September 20, 2010). "Copy and Paste als Geschäftsmodell: Amazon bietet die Plattform für tausende absurde Buchtitel". [[Heinz Heise.
Bateman, Jessica. (February 8, 2011). "Wikipedia articles copied and sold as books by US publisher". [[Small World News Service]].
Gary, Nicolas. (October 14, 2010). "Arnaque : refourguer des articles de Wikipedia compilés pour 11 €". actualitté.com.
Birgé, Jean-Jacques. (October 15, 2010). "L'arnaque". [[:de:Mediapart.
(September 21, 2010). "Wikipedia-Bücher: Geschäft mit freien Inhalten - Verschiedene Anbieter versuchen, mit Benutzer-generierten Inhalten von Wikipedia auf Amazon das große Geld zu machen". [[:de:Tiroler Tageszeitung.
(2010). "Book Publishers LLC: Book Club FAQs". Booksllc.net.
Strauss, Victoria. (May 23, 2010). "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics". [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
(April 14, 2010). "Bowker Reports Traditional U.S. Book Production Flat in 2009". [[R.R. Bowker]].
(2010). "General Book Publishers LLC: Book Club FAQs". General-books.net.
(2010). "General Books Club: Select from a Million Books for Free". Generalbooksclub.com.
(2010). "General Books - Search Amazon for our books". Genbooks.net.
(2010). "Million-books.com: Book Club FAQs". Million-books.com.
(2010). "Rare Books Club: FAQS". Rarebooksclub.com.
(2011). "Wiki Editions - Select from a Million Books for Free". Wikieditions.com.
Example CC-BY-SA publication on Amazon.com: [https://www.amazon.com/RuneScape-Agility-Ancient-Ardougne-Attack/dp/1234720736/ 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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