Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing
legal form	LLC
founding	1988
Seat	Whitefish , Montana
Branch	publishing company
Website	www.kessinger.net

Kessinger Publishing is an American publisher .

Publications

Kessinger publishes reprints of rare, out of print or copyright- free books . It was founded in Whitefish , Montana in 1988 . The dates of the first publication of the titles are usually before the year 1923 , so that it can be assumed that the books are copyright-free in the USA.

Today, Kessinger often uses titles scanned from Google Books and requests new ISBNs for the scanned books. The publisher also publishes print-on-demand titles. In 2009 the publisher offered over 190,000 titles.

Individual scholars accuse the publisher of Copyfraud , since books that are actually legitimate and permanent in the public domain are again given a copyright.

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ Victoria Strauss : Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics. In: Sfwa.org. SFWA and Writer Beware , May 23, 2010, accessed October 30, 2016 .
^ Bowker Reports Traditional US Book Production Flat in 2009. In: Bowker.com. RR Bowker on April 14, 2010; archived from the original on July 8, 2011 ; accessed on October 30, 2016 (English).
^ Charles Eicher: Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain, How web giants are stealing the future of knowledge. In: The Register. June 26, 2009, accessed October 30, 2016 .

[1] Victoria Strauss : Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics. In: Sfwa.org. SFWA and Writer Beware , May 23, 2010, accessed October 30, 2016 .

[2] Bowker Reports Traditional US Book Production Flat in 2009. In: Bowker.com. RR Bowker on April 14, 2010; archived from the original on July 8, 2011 ; accessed on October 30, 2016 (English).

[3] Charles Eicher: Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain, How web giants are stealing the future of knowledge. In: The Register. June 26, 2009, accessed October 30, 2016 .