Books LLC is an American publisher and a

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based in Memphis,

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. Its primary work is collecting

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and Wikia articles and selling them as printed and downloadable books.

Print-on-demand and electronic products

Books LLC publishes

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paperback and downloadable compilations of English texts and documents from open knowledge sources such as

. Books LLC's copies of the English Wikipedia are republished by

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. 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,

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s 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, Books LLC and its sister imprint General Books LLC produced 224,460 and 11,887 titles respectively.

Imprint and book club names

In brackets: kind of material published and sold. * Books LLC or Books Group (

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) * General Books LLC (

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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)Example CC-BY-SA publication on Amazon.com
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) * Bücher Gruppe (

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)

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* Debora Weber-Wulff
German Libraries Avoiding Fake Publishers
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Imprint and book club names

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