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So what the vanity presses are doing is superficially similar to what you and I do.

What these vanity presses actually do is employ horrifically expensive and ineffective ways for authors to publish their books.

What gets me with this comment is the misconception the commenter has about just what self - published authors are and what vanity presses are.

In fact, they're sometimes thousands of dollars cheaper than what a vanity press charges.

Last time, I talked a bit about what a vanity press is, and I began to discuss some of the aspects of a vanity press that I'm calling XYZ publishing and an author named Bob who is about to fall into their clutches.

FACT: The small press, indie or independent publisher IS NOT THE SAME as self - publishing... which is what vanity press is all about.

If you go online and find the best possible people in editing, artwork, layout, formatting and printing — not the cheapest or even the most expensive, but the best for your specific book — you won't pay half of what a vanity press will charge you just to get started and you'll end up making a much bigger profit, not just because you aren't sharing with a general contractor, but because you end up with a higher quality book that will actually sell at a price people will actually pay.

What the vanity press is actually doing is letting you use one of their ISBNs.

FROM SCOTT: Last time, I talked a bit about what a vanity press is, and I began to discuss some of the aspects of a vanity press that I'm calling XYZ publishing and an author named Bob who is about to fall into their clutches.

Not exact matches

A vanity press which charges you thousands of dollars to publish your book might seem faster, but you lose a lot of choice with what they have to offer.

A good example is that many vanity presses have a contract for what can be refunded when, such as you can get editing done, but if you start the process all of your money is non-refundable, even if the writing was not edited.

What is also worrisome is that some of these vanity presses are owned by traditional publishers.

In a recent WBJB Publishing Basics Radio interview with Jan Nathan, the Executive Director of PMA, Jan was asked the question, «What type of publishing (vanity, subsidy, traditional, small press, independent) best describe places like Author House, Xlibris and IUniverse?

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.

There are a number of models, and in my experience what sets them apart from vanity presses is that they're run like publishing companies.

I had just begun reading about what they are and the services they provide and was struggling to really find the line that separates these services from self - publishing / vanity press types of situations.

A Note about the Brand Name: If you see a big name traditional publisher tied to a vanity press, here's what you need to know: it's still a vanity press if you're paying for their services or their books or to be published.

What's the difference between a vanity publisher and a small press?

(What about the publisher owned vanity presses?)

They don't have the obligation to do anything that would undermine it * in their own minds, * even if other people say «Hey, what right do you have to limit my exposure to vanity press (i.e. xylitol)??»

Control and management of your metadata is one of the chief benefits of being a self - published indie author and this control gives you a huge advantage over larger publishers, and even what you can achieve using a vanity press.

But if the HQN's editorial expertise (specific to romance novels) is no longer on the menu, what differentiates Dellarte's vanity press service from any one of Author Solutions» other vanity presses?

In comparing hybrid publishers with vanity presses, it's important to note that vanity presses are not selective in what they publish, nor are they set up to be.

I'll be following these posts carefully — this one was, thankfully, not very much news to me (except that Writer's Digest has a vanity press — what?!).

The «too good to be true» advertising continues and a seemingly endless parade of authors continue to hand over their credit cards in hopes of hitting the self - publishing lottery... which is exactly what it is when you use a vanity press to publish your book.

This means that no matter what I say, 35 % of the potential self - publishers are going to buy into the vanity press model, 35 % into the self - publishing model and 30 % in the «just don't know» category.

You'll learn: * How to figure out if self - publishing is the right step for you and your book * The difference between vanity publishing services and creating your own press * The bare - bone, essential steps you need to take for your book to live * Where to scrimp and where to splurge * Hidden costs and easily missed steps on the self - publishing * How to develop a timeline and a budget * What you need to do to get your book out there.

What is even scarier is that most of the trade media is so dependent on these vanity presses for advertising that they will never say anything bad about them.

What's unfortunate is that a lot of writers are saying that it couldn't hurt because it's not a traditional vanity press scam and that at least they'd be published.

What sometimes confuses people is that vanity presses now commonly refer to themselves as «self - publishing companies,» but if you are buying a package deal that includes all the tasks involved in the publication process, then you are not self - published, but vanity - published.

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I have always heard the term «vanity press» but never really understood what it was!

What is important is that you avoid the dangers of a vanity press.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known as the publishing predators); or one of the pay the other pay to publish services that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Ingram Spark or Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

What would you consider a vanity press as opposed to a self publishing company?

I think there is a grave misunderstanding between self - driven self - publishers - or micropublishers and what this proposal represents, which is costly vanity press services specifically marketed to individuals who have submitted work unsolicited to Harlequin.

They are what's called subsidy or vanity presses in the industry.

So what is the difference between these hybrid companies and the vanity presses?

What they were, vanity presses — nothing more, nothing less.

What the majority didn't know was that Archway Publishing is S&S partnering venture with Author Solutions, the kink of vanity presses and running the contest.

A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse; or an Outskirts Press that offers different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name opress like a LuLu, AuthorHouse; or an Outskirts Press that offers different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name oPress that offers different types of packages / templates for the author to select from; to Amazon's CreateSpace; to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it.

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A self - published book can mean almost anything... from what gets spilled out of the fingers and mind of the author to the presentation from the local printing shop and sometimes looking like it was put together at the kitchen table with a glue - stick; to a vanity press like a LuLu, AuthorHouse / Solutions (known to many as publishing predators); or any of the pay to publish operations that claim to offer different types of packages / templates for the author to select from as well as claiming to do more personalization and hand - holding than a vanity press operation; to Amazon's CreateSpace and the Ingram Spark (higher quality); to the author doing the publishing himself with his name or a «looks like a publishing company» name on it (always recommended).

What's sad is there are untold more vanity presses targeting unwary writers, and dozens of which target the Christian market.

A word to the wise, many so called book printing companies or vanity presses offer what seems like great pricing, but the devil is in the details.

If you don't pay attention to what's selling, you can fall for the scammy vanity press that will extort more and more money from you to endlessly market a book nobody wants.

If on - line publishers are catering more and more to the authors, what's to stop them from being vanity presses?

The main difference between services like CreateSpace and vanity presses is that companies offering legitimate authoring services are very clear about what is included and what is not; and authors can choose only the services they need.

These are not vanity presses, but what might be called co-op publishers.