Sentences with phrase «vanity imprint»

The Confessions of Congressman X is published by Mill City Press, a vanity imprint in Minnesota, and will be available on May 24.»

The first «release» from this new vanity imprint has three huge errors on the cover.

I mean, this is why mainstream publishers add a vanity imprint - they act as the bankroll for the trade side.

Harlequin's new vanity imprint?

I don't think that traditional publishers have much to fear from these new vanity imprints.

I'm going to go waaaaaaaaaaaaay out there and guess that it's at least partly to do with the continued exploitation of self - publishers by large publishers via their vanity imprints — and the industry's casual tolerance of same.

Not exact matches

The Milani Rose Blush — which has a imprinted depression of a ruffled rose bloom right on the pressed powder — is so gorgeous, you'll want to scatter a few on your vanity.

So you're probably already aware of the huge debacle that's exploded across the publishing blogs the last couple of days about Harlequin opening up a shiny new vanity publishing imprint.

This vanity press and its numerous imprints are the full - blown cystic acne of the publishing world.

For example Penguin Books started a Book Country imprint which has been criticized as a vanity press that preys on authors who want to be «affiliated» with the publishing leviathan.

In addition to giving publishers the ability to designate, by line, which of their imprints are «eligible», RWA would also have to let them designate which imprints should fall under the non - vanity / non-subsidy small press designation.

What I like about it is, smaller publishers with both a fee - based service and a commercial imprint might not be eligible because the number of vanity - published titles would be too large.

Unlike vanity publishers, we take great pride in ensuring that every book we bring to market is well polished and representative of the high standards of our imprint.

If you pay for «publishing,» but the book bears the imprint of another publisher, that company is a vanity publisher.

Every single one of those imprints is a «vanity press.»

Last week Penguin Random House announced the sale of beleaguered Author Solutions, the large (but seemingly getting smaller) vanity press that is known by several imprint names in the publishing industry including Xlibris, AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford and WestBow Press.

I've spent the last six months trying to get the Westbow salesperson to admit that they are basically a «Your Name Imprinted Here» version of Author Solutions... the granddaddy of all vanity presses... which they are.

We had the rise of the new form of vanity publishing, where all that mattered was what imprint you were assigned to.

They will still operate four vanity presses on behalf of PRH as Partner Imprints.

I've kept up with several of the discussions going on and there wasn't a hard and fast decision on if this imprint was vanity, subsidy, or self - publishing.

IMHO, there's a pretty big difference between Random House being a minority owner of a self - pub company and Harlequin including a referral to their own vanity press imprint in their rejection letters.

Stacia said, IMHO, there's a pretty big difference between Random House being a minority owner of a self - pub company and Harlequin including a referral to their own vanity press imprint in their rejection letters.

There is the Big 6 route with agents, there is the mid-list traditional route with agents, there is the mid-list traditional route without agents, there is the small press route, there is the co-operative route, there is the hybrid route (think Amazon's imprints) and there is self - publishing not to mention the dreaded (read unrecommended) vanity publishing route.

It should disabuse any newbies of the notion that the new S&S imprint is anything but vanity publishing.

Not for vanity, But «Silver and White» has carved A permanent imprint on your recently recovered memory.