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A man has been arrested in connection to a phishing scam that stole and attempted to steal hundreds of unpublished book manuscripts from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ethan Hawke. As ...
Just days after she released her book, “Gravitas,” last September, Lisa Sun spotted fake workbooks in the suggested books field right under her legitimate book’s Amazon listing page.
America Star Books, formerly PublishAmerica, is a Maryland-based print-on-demand book publisher founded in 1999 by Lawrence Alvin "Larry" Clopper III and Willem Meiners. . Some writers and authors' advocates have accused the company of being a vanity press while representing itself as a "traditional publis
Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing [1] [2] or deceptive publishing, [3] is an exploitative academic publishing business model, where the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship. It is characterized by misleading information, deviates from the standard peer-review process, is highly non ...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP) is an academic book publisher based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. [1] It is not affiliated with the University of Cambridge or Cambridge University Press. It was founded by a Cambridge alumnus. [2] Originally it was a hobby project, publishing out-of-print Victorian novels. [3]
Jun. 29—Scammers are using a Publisher Clearing House ruse as the latest tactic to take people's money. Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes are legitimate, however, scammers have honed in on a ...
In August 2006, a Kansas trial court ordered AuthorHouse to pay $240,000 in punitive damage as well as $230,000 in actual damage to romance author Rebecca Brandewyne and her parents for publishing a book by her ex-husband that was "harmful" and libelous of them. AuthorHouse was also ordered to pay $20,000 each to Brandewyne's parents for the ...
The popularity of genealogy, encouraged by the increasing use of the Internet is encouraging a number of people to mass-market what authorities regard as "scam genealogical books" which are sometimes promoted by affiliated websites. They tend to contain a general introduction, a section about the origin of surnames in general, a section about ...