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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.
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 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.
I recognized the name from something I had recently read, agreed, and moved forward with it. It went through three rounds of peer review (two in the process of publication and one external), and is still [occasionally] cited (despite the "write-only" implication, WorldCat says 127 libraries have a copy, though more would've been better).
OmniScriptum is designated as non-academic by the Norwegian Scientific Index, [3] and its subsidiary Lambert Academic Publishing has been described as a predatory vanity press which does "not apply the basic standards of academic publishing such as peer-review, editorial or proof-reading processes." [4]
Atlanta Nights is a collaborative novel created in 2004 by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors, with the express purpose of producing an unpublishably bad piece of work, so as to test whether publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it. [1] It was accepted; after the hoax was revealed, the publisher withdrew its offer. [2]
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.
A scam is a scam and deception is deception. You'll find both in every type of business on this Earth, but "vanity presses" and "vanity publishers" are not all scams. the Merriam-Webster definition for a "vanity press" is "a publishing house that publishes books at the author's expense." There's nothing wrong with that.