Sentences with phrase «decades as vanity»
Some of the worst offenders have been around for decades as vanity presses.
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For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.
Similarly, few novelists have tapped into this era's motivations, anxieties and cultural eccentricities as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities did in the eighties or Jonathan Franzen managed a decade later with The Corrections.
Self - publishing — once known as the «vanity press» — has been around for decades.