Vanity publishing is nothing new. Before Amazon, before the internet, there has been an industry catering to those who want to be published, with a lot of sleazy operators. Example: You pay all sorts of fees and then the actual publishing costs for a certain number of books that will supposedly sit in a warehouse, waiting for you, the writer, to sell them. If they don't sell within a certain amount of time, they get pulped. Certain clever vanity publishers realized they could make additional profits if they never actually printed the books and then, after an interval, report them as being pulped.
The self publishing business of today is much improved over this state, but it doesn't guarantee you'll recoup your costs.
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Vanity publishing is nothing new. Before Amazon, before the internet, there has been an industry catering to those who want to be published, with a lot of sleazy operators. Example: You pay all sorts of fees and then the actual publishing costs for a certain number of books that will supposedly sit in a warehouse, waiting for you, the writer, to sell them. If they don't sell within a certain amount of time, they get pulped. Certain clever vanity publishers realized they could make additional profits if they never actually printed the books and then, after an interval, report them as being pulped.
The self publishing business of today is much improved over this state, but it doesn't guarantee you'll recoup your costs.
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