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Hephaestus Books publishes print-on-demand compilations of Wikipedia articles -- not original works. Caveat Emptor.

If you feel that doing a free search on Wikipedia is not worth your time compared to paying someone to print out Wikipedia articles for you, then these books may be of interest.

Works titled as "Novels of [Author], such as [novel1], [novel2]..." are very arguably deceptively advertised trademark violations, but reviews stating that they were scammed seem to be outnumbered by people uprating the original works mentioned (rather than the Hephaestus books about the original works). There are also reviewers who have not generally reviewed any other publishers' books apart from Hephaestus on GoodReads, who give the most effusive prai...more Hephaestus Books publishes print-on-demand compilations of Wikipedia articles -- not original works. Caveat Emptor.

If you feel that doing a free search on Wikipedia is not worth your time compared to paying someone to print out Wikipedia articles for you, then these books may be of interest.

Works titled as "Novels of [Author], such as [novel1], [novel2]..." are very arguably deceptively advertised trademark violations, but reviews stating that they were scammed seem to be outnumbered by people uprating the original works mentioned (rather than the Hephaestus books about the original works). There are also reviewers who have not generally reviewed any other publishers' books apart from Hephaestus on GoodReads, who give the most effusive praise to these books.

"Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge."

These collections of articles could be very useful for research as essentially all the research, including citations, is done for you and presented in one booklet. Although frankly since you can get the same information from Wikipedia, which is a free online resource whose members did the work, for free, which Hephaestus is selling to you, you may as well go there and get the work for free too.

If one is going to support the argument against Haephestus that one might as well go and get the work from Wikipedia because a lot of it, if not most, has just been collated from there, which would take time that researchers could devote to other work, then one must also carry the argument further and say that the Wikipedia articles are to a greater or lesser extent, summaries of research in books and media already available. So the logical argument is to go and get all the books and articles yourself and do the research and not take advantage of either Wikipedia or Hephaestus to collate and summarise this research for you.

Of course, Wikipedia does not charge you for their summarizing service.(less)

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Average rating: 4.31 · 2,930 ratings · 217 reviews · 44,605 distinct works

	The Hunger Games, including: Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire (2009 Novel), The Hunger Games Trilogy, Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, List Of Characters In The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Hunger Games Universe, Haymitch Abernathy 4.47 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Stephanie Plum Books, including: Stephanie Plum, One For The Money (novel), Two For The Dough, Three To Get Deadly, Four To Score (novel), High Five (novel), Seven Up (novel), Hot Six (novel), Hard Eight (novel), To The Nines (novel), Eleven On Top 4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	House of Night Series, Including: P. C. Cast, Marked (Novel), Characters in the House of Night Series, Betrayed (Novel), House of Night 4.39 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Earth's Children, including: Jean M. Auel, The Clan Of The Cave Bear, The Clan Of The Cave Bear (film), The Valley Of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains Of Passage, The Shelters Of Stone, Ayla (earth's Children), Jondalar, Others 4.40 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Dragonriders Of Pern Books, including: Dragonflight, Dragonsong, Dragondrums, The White Dragon, Dragonquest, All The Weyrs Of Pern, Dragonsinger, Dragon's Kin, Nerilka's Story, The Masterharper Of Pern, Dragon's Fire, Dragonsblood, The Skies Of Pern 4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Maximum Ride, including: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, List Of Maximum Ride Characters, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever, Maximum Ride: Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports, Maximum Ride: The Final Warning, Max: A Maximum Ride Novel 4.62 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Including: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels (Libba Bray Novel), the Sweet Far Thing, Miss Hester Asa Moore, Kartik (Gemm 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Novels By V. C. Andrews, including: Gates Of Paradise, Flowers In The Attic, Petals On The Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds Of Yesterday, Garden Of Shadows, Heaven (casteel Series), Dark Angel (casteel Series), Fallen Hearts, Web Of Dreams, Hidden Jewel 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Novels By Nicholas Sparks, including: The Notebook, Message In A Bottle (novel), Nights In Rodanthe, The Choice (novel), Dear John (novel), The Lucky One (novel), A Walk To Remember (novel), Nights In Rodanthe (novel), A Bend In The Road 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Novels By Charlaine Harris, including: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead In Dallas, Club Dead, Dead To The World (novel), Dead As A Doornail, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead, From Dead To Worse, Dead And Gone (novel), A Touch Of Dead, Dead In The Family 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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