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A vanity press or vanity publisher, sometimes also subsidy publisher, [1] is a publishing house where the author pays to have the book published. [2] It is not to be confused with hybrid publishing, where the publisher and author collaborate and share costs and risks, or with assisted self-publishing, where the author pays publishing services to assist with self-publishing their own book, and ...
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
By 1991, the company's address was in Pittsburgh. [4] They have been accredited by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) since 1995. [1] The BBB lists them as having started in June 1989, and also operating under the alternate publishing imprint names I-Proclaim Books, Red Lead Press, RoseDog Books, and Whitmore Publishing Company. [1]
More recently, in 2019, the Writer Beware blog (sponsored by the SFWA) reported that Austin Macauley was the vanity publisher which was the subject of the "most reports and questions", noting that the vast majority of deals involve the authors paying the company to have their book published, while the occasional "fee-free" contract offered to ...
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.
The company is known for its sports literature, especially baseball history, as well as books about chess, military history, and film. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2007, the Mountain Times wrote that McFarland publishes about 275 scholarly monographs and reference book titles a year; [ 4 ] [ 9 ] Robert Lee Brewer reported in 2015 that the number is about 350.
Self-publishing. Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. The term usually refers to written media, such as books and magazines, either as an ebook or as a physical copy using print on demand technology. It may also apply to albums, pamphlets, brochures, games, video ...
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] In 1955, they landed a title on the national best-sellers list for their first and only time; Jehova's ...