Not exact matches
Beyond
vanity, you feel confident because you just
pressed some
major poundage.
Unfortunately,
vanity presses also sometimes (often) pretend they're going to do more for you than they really do... like get you
major distribution.
They are billed as a «self - publishing» company currently doing business with several
major publishers, while acting more like a severely abusive
vanity press than an actual self - publishing service.
I've seen opinions in recent months that Big 6 publishing is the new
vanity publishing, because those authors still pursuing it are only doing it for the satisfaction of having a
major press pick them up and to see that publisher's logo on the spines of their books.
Something to think about when you see
major publishers starting
vanity press divisions.