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Hybrid publishing is the source of debate in the publishing industry, with some viewing hybrid publishers as vanity presses in disguise. [7] However, a true hybrid publisher is selective in what they publish and will share the costs (and therefore the risks) with the author, whereas with a vanity press, the author pays the full cost of production and therefore carries all the risk.
The following is a list of companies that provide assistance in self-publishing books or engage in vanity publishing.This list is provided to help editors evaluate whether sources published by these companies are reliable for purposes of including content in Wikipedia.
A hybrid press is a publishing house which can be broadly defined by its source of revenue. The revenue source of a traditional publisher is through the sale of books (and other related materials) that they publish, while the revenue of hybrid publishers comes from both book sales and fees charged to the author for the execution of their publishing services.
iUniverse focuses on print-on-demand self-publishing and a service the company refers to as "assisted self-publishing" which critics say is indicative of vanity press [2] [3] since authors are asked to pay from US$400 [4] to $15,000 for additional services. [5] Soon after they were founded, Barnes & Noble purchased a 49% stake in the company ...
Self-published books may be printed by a vanity press or a publisher that prints books by only that author. If the author works for a company, and the publisher is the employer, and the author's job is to produce the work (e.g., sales materials or a corporate website), then the author and publisher are the same.
This publisher looks like vanity press, see (I'm not contending that the two links are reliable, just that they indicate that it's vanity press), it looks like the reference works have no peer review. IRWolfie- 13:45, 30 May 2012 (UTC) They have a wiki-page Universal Publishers (United States). I am not sure what to make of them actually.
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