What is Guinness World Records?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox book | name = Guinness World Records | author=[[Craig Glenday]] (ed.)<ref name=Corporate>{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/corporate/about_us_5.aspx|title=Corporate|publisher=Guinness World Records|accessdate=2010-10-19|archive-date=2010-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100319003037/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/corporate/about_us_5.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> | image = Guinnessworldrecords.svg | image_caption = The ''Guinness World Records'' logo | cover_artist = Simon Jones | language = <!-- Please DO NOT add links to the xxxx language articles, which add nothing to readers' understanding to the subject -->English, Arabic, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Bulgarian | series = Guinness World Records | subject = World Records | genre = Information | publisher=[[Jim Pattison Group]] | pub_date = 1955–present | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = 256 (2015-2021)<br />272 (2014)<br />288 (2011-2013) <br />287 (2010) <br />288 (2000–2009)<br />289 (2008) | isbn = 978-1-904994-67-1 | oclc = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Guinness World Records''''' is a reference book published each year. It has a collection of [[world record]]s, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series yet made.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Watson|first=Bruce|date=August 2005|title=World's Unlikeliest Bestseller|journal=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]|pages=76–81}}</ref> It is also one of the most often stolen books from public libraries in the United States.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/article118059.ece|title=Book deals for a steal|date=2008-05-04|newspaper=[[The Times (South Africa)|The Times]]|location=South Africa|accessdate=2009-