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VDM Publishing
VDM Publishing or Omniscriptum Publishing Group is a German publishing group based in Saarbrücken, Germany, with offices in Argentina, Latvia, Mauritius and Moldova.〔〔 Its book production is based on print on demand technology.
VDM publishing's imprints—''Alphascript'', ''Betascript'', ''Fastbook Publishing'' and ''Doyen Verlag''—specialize in publishing and selling Wikipedia articles in printed form via print on demand, in e-commerce bookstores. Alphascript distributes publications through several on-line book retailers. At least some of the books are printed by Amazon.com. As of November 2010, around 150,000 such titles have been produced. In June 2010, VDM started its own online-bookshop: MoreBooks! Publishing.
VDM's publishing methods have received criticism for the soliciting of manuscripts from thousands of individuals, for providing non-notable authors with the appearance of a peer-reviewed publishing history, for benefiting from the free contributions of online volunteers, and for insufficiently disclosing the free nature of their content. VDM responds that it is a valuable, quality resource, that the company has no problem asking authors for content, that buyers are informed of where information comes from, that books are a convenient form to collect articles about interesting subjects, and that its customers are satisfied with VDM's products. VDM Publishing is designated as non-scientific by the Norwegian Scientific Index.〔(VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG ), Norwegian Scientific Index〕
==History==
The first publishing house of the group, ''Verlag Dr Müller'', was founded in Düsseldorf in 2002 by Wolfgang Philipp Müller (usually named Dr. Wolfgang P. Müller) and was transferred to Saarbrücken in August 2005.〔 The Mauritian office was established in April 2007 and was managed from 2008 up until May 2011 by David Benoit Novel; since June 2011, this office is directed by Reezwan Ghanty and Laurent Ribet. In 2007, the group began distributing its publications through Lightning Source, Amazon, and the German company Books on Demand. In September 2011 the original corporate websites, vdm-verlag.de and vdm-publishing.com, ceased to exist. On 1 October 2011 Thorsten Ohm replaced Müller as CEO.〔
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