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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.
Fiona Banner (born 1966), also known as The Vanity Press, is a British artist.Her work encompasses sculpture, drawing, installation and text, and demonstrates a long-standing fascination with the emblem of fighter aircraft and their role within culture and especially as presented on film.
Vantage Press was a publishing company based in New York City with an advertised office in Hollywood. [1] The company was founded in 1949 and ceased operations in late 2012. [2] Vantage was the largest vanity press in the United States. [3]
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.
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.
Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC operated, in general, on the vanity press model in which most authors paid for the publication of their books. [1] [2] Its publishing charges may have been refunded for books with sufficient sales volumes. [3] The company was founded by Richard and Rita Tate and was located in Mustang, Oklahoma.
The Edwin Mellen Press, sometimes stylised as Mellen Press, is an academic publisher. It was founded in 1972 by theology professor Herbert W. Richardson. [1] It has been involved in a number of notable legal and academic controversies, sometimes being labeled as a vanity press. Most, but not all, of its published works are in English. [a]
It does not include exclusively online publishers, academic publishers (who often publish very limited print runs, but for a different market), or businesses operating solely as printers, such as print-on-demand companies or vanity presses