veradee (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} veradee) wrote,@ 2009-08-28 19:08:00 |
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Vanity Publishers
I've never understood why some people decide to pay for publishing their books. Agreeing to the terms a vanity publisher offers has always seemed like a bad and desperate choice to me, but I never expected things to be as bad as they are described in this German article from Spiegel Online.
Some real authors sent in a faked and very badly written exposé, using a pseudonym, and all six vanity publishers accepted. Five of them also accepted the 842-pages-long manuscript that was cobbled together from copyright-free books and therefore made no sense at all. Depending on the publisher, the author should have paid between 3,000 and 30,000 Euros.
I realise that the fact that a real publishing house accepts your book also doesn't mean that your book is any good, but those publishers intend to make money by selling your book. Therefore, someone there has to believe that it's at least sellable if nothing else. A vanity publisher doesn't even believe in you this much because you've already paid him.
I've never understood why some people decide to pay for publishing their books. Agreeing to the terms a vanity publisher offers has always seemed like a bad and desperate choice to me, but I never expected things to be as bad as they are described in this German article from Spiegel Online.
Some real authors sent in a faked and very badly written exposé, using a pseudonym, and all six vanity publishers accepted. Five of them also accepted the 842-pages-long manuscript that was cobbled together from copyright-free books and therefore made no sense at all. Depending on the publisher, the author should have paid between 3,000 and 30,000 Euros.
I realise that the fact that a real publishing house accepts your book also doesn't mean that your book is any good, but those publishers intend to make money by selling your book. Therefore, someone there has to believe that it's at least sellable if nothing else. A vanity publisher doesn't even believe in you this much because you've already paid him.
