"booklegging" meaning in English

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          "text": "I should like to suggest another term–booklegging.",
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          "ref": "1927, The American Parade, volume 2, page 42:",
          "text": "But the problem is more difficult in the case of booklegging, because you can only drink liquor once, but a book can be read by a hundred college boys, and will be, if it gets enough police-advertising.",
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          "ref": "2010, Toni Samek, She was a Booklegger: Remembering Celeste West:",
          "text": "But nothing could have prepared me for the range of emotions that came over me when I found myself actually sitting in Tina's living room surrounded by all Celeste's papers, journals, pictures, clippings, files, stickers, artwork, magical items, booklegging tools, and cats.",
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          "text": "When controversial books did manage to reach readers in the United States, they often did so without an American copyright, through underground channels of piracy or booklegging, disseminative practices that deprived authors of financial rewards and the power to control the quality and placement of their texts.",
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