origin united states headquarters location whitefish montana official website www.kessinger.net kessinger publishing llc is an american print on demand publishing company located in whitefish montana that specializes in rare out of print books . 1 2 description and history edit according to kelly gallagher vice president of publishing services at a bibliographic information company kessinger publishing is part of a group of publishers that are opening up new publishing venues by producing titles for very niche markets and also bringing public domain titles back to life . 3 in 2009 the company produced 190 175 titles and was reported to be the third largest producer of non traditional books that year . 3 4 the register uk reported in 2009 that volume 1 of a book by lafcadio hearn was not available for a full preview because it was marked as copyrighted material and offered for sale by kessinger publishing . according to the article some scholars were outraged because the book was previously in the public domain and criticized kessinger publishing for making the internet copy of the book useless to scholars by forcing them to purchase it . 5 references edit heffernan virginia 2010 04 30 . authors unbound online . the new york times . june 12 2008 love letters book in sex and city movie an imaginary tale albany times union albany ny a b strauss victoria 2010 05 23 . lies damned lies and statistics . sfwa.org . sfwa and writer beware . archived from the original on 2010 12 21 . retrieved 2010 12 21 . bowker reports traditional u.s. book production flat in 2009 . bowker.com . new providence nj r.r. bowker . 2010 04 14 . archived from the original on 2010 12 21 . retrieved 2010 12 21 . eicher charles 2009 06 26 . copyfraud poisoning the public domain how web giants are stealing the future of knowledge . the register . retrieved 2012 03 31 . this publishing related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kessinger publishing & oldid 726609505 categories book publishing companies of the united statescompanies based in montanapublishing companies established in 1988self publishing companiespublishing stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 23 june 2016 at 06 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view