Sentences with phrase «older vanity presses»

However, the two raised some interesting points in the interview about how they have taken that format and adapted it to today's market with things like low order requirements (as little as fifty, compared to hundreds of copies through older vanity presses), the ability to return unsold titles for a refund, and more.

Writers aren't stuck with the old vanity presses that took your $ $ $ and gave you a printout with a cardboard cover in return.

That smacks of the old vanity presses that would «publish» you but you then had to buy scores of the book and sell them yourself.

Somehow the new vanity model of deceiving thousands of people out of hundreds of dollars was thought to be different than the old vanity press model which deceived hundreds of people out of thousands of dollars.

Not exact matches

These companies actually do little more than the old - time vanity presses; you have to think twice about what that will do to your credibility as a writer.

Many authors who say they are self - published are really the customers of a good old - fashioned vanity press.

This is not the self - publishing of old, where vanity presses convince you to buy boxes of books that sit in your garage which you end up giving away at garage sales.

Today is actually not much different then the old days other than the copy shops have been replaced with digital printers and the vanity presses lurk all over the Internet and call themselves by all kinds of different names.

If a hybrid publisher has a requirement that the author must pay for a specific number of books, it's a good sign the company is merely a dressed - up version of an old - school «vanity» press.

In the case of assisted self - publishing or publishing services (called «vanity presses» in the old days), these companies adopt the moniker of «hybrid publisher» to look more innovative or attractive to authors.

You will notice that the words «indie publishing» and «traditional publishing» do not appear anywhere in these criteria, because I think the 21st century publishing environment has made the old wall between «vanity» and «proper» press, obsolete.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware You may have heard that Vantage Press, one of the USA's oldest vanity publishers, closed its doors at the end of 2012.

It smacked of self - indulgence and vanity (as in that old term «vanity press»).

You should also skip older books self - published with a vanity press, unless your sales were spectacular.

Of course, some vanity press books were never intended to be commercial (as when a self - publisher I know published his 13 - year - old niece's novel on Lulu as a birthday gift.)

In the Bowker record for each new ISBN (print, EPUB, MOBI), indicate that it replaces the old, vanity press ISBN.

Harlequin is an old and reputable mainstream publisher whose sudden association with a notorious vanity press empire is clearly an act of «monitizing rejections.»