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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.
Self-publishing is the publication of media (e.g. books, music, art) by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. However, the author may engage professionals or companies to assist with various aspects of publication, distribution or marketing.
Vantage was the largest vanity press in the United States. [3] In 1955, they landed a title on the national best-sellers list for their first and only time; Jehova's Witnesses sold 100,000 copies. [ 4 ]
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.
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]
The Italian Vanity Fair was established in October 2003 [19] [22] and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2013. [23] Vanity Fair Germany launched in February 2007 at a cost of €50 million (euros), then the most expensive new magazine in Germany in years and Condé Nast's biggest investment outside the United States. After circulation had ...
Note that hybrid publishers and vanity presses do not "assist in self-publishing". They are publishers who take a contribution from the author in order to publish the author's work under their own imprint.
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