Nabu Press

Nabu Press is an American publishing imprint — a trade name used by the commercial company Nabu, which is described as a sister company of BiblioLabs LLC. It specializes in reissuing old or out-of-print books, making them available again either as digital books for tablets and computers or as printed books produced through print-on-demand, where a print run may be as small as a single copy. The imprint's output is distinguished from other BiblioLabs LLC books in that a Nabu Press title has not necessarily received human editorial attention. Compared with projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikisource, Nabu Press books are sold commercially even when the underlying text is in the public domain. Compared with a traditional paper publisher, which may also publish public-domain texts but typically adds notes, an introduction, or an established edition and commits to a minimum print run, Nabu Press relies on automated reproduction and on-demand manufacturing. Nabu Press and similar companies emerged at a moment when it became technically possible to make widely available books that had previously existed only in a few libraries. Their practice has been criticized by legal scholars as a form of "copyfraud," because such firms have claimed copyright over works belonging to the public domain. While nothing prohibits a company from selling books containing public-domain texts, it is misleading and illegal to claim to hold the copyright over them. In 2009, Nabu Press and its parent or sister companies were reported to have printed 272,930 books. The imprint is associated with the BiblioLabs/BiblioBoard ecosystem, whose tools help libraries and their communities create, share, and discover local content in an unlimited, simultaneous-use experience.

Nabu Press is an American publishing imprint — a publisher's trade name — used by the commercial company Nabu, which is described as a sister company of BiblioLabs LLC, a firm with a broader field of activity. The imprint specializes in publishing old or out-of-print books. A Nabu Press book may be a digital book intended for a tablet or computer, or a printed book produced through print-on-demand, in which case the print run may be as small as a single copy. The imprint's books differ from other BiblioLabs LLC books in that a Nabu Press title has not necessarily received human attention. They differ from the offerings of Project Gutenberg or Wikisource in that the book is sold commercially even when the text is in the public domain. They also differ from a traditional paper publisher, which may likewise publish public-domain texts — for example a literary classic — but generally adds notes or an introduction, or establishes the text itself, and commits to a print run and a minimum number of copies. Nabu Press and other companies of the same type arrived at a moment when it became possible to make available to everyone books that had previously existed only in a few libraries. The practice of companies such as Nabu Press has been criticized by legal scholars as a form of "copyfraud," insofar as they claim to impose copyright on a work belonging to the public domain. While nothing prohibits a company from selling books containing public-domain texts, it is misleading and illegal to claim to hold the copyright over them. In 2009, Nabu Press and its parent or sister companies were reported to have printed 272,930 books. The imprint is linked to the BiblioLabs/BiblioBoard ecosystem; BiblioBoard describes tools that help libraries and their communities create, share, and discover local content in an unlimited, simultaneous-use experience.

• Nabu Press and its parent or sister companies were reported to have printed 272,930 books in 2009.

A low-cost, automated reprint imprint that makes scarce or out-of-print books available again as e-books or print-on-demand paperbacks, without necessarily applying human editorial attention.

• Digital books for tablets and computers

  Nabu Press issues old or out-of-print titles as digital books.

• Print-on-demand printed books

  Printed books produced through print-on-demand, where the print run may be as small as a single copy.

• Copyfraud criticism

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