vanity press
vanity publisher

The vanity press model has been extended to other media.

After her marriage, she began a novel about a girl working at a vanity press.

In the book business, such vanity press issues are kept out of stores and find whatever market they can through direct sales.

He has a job as editor of a small literary rag and also works at a vanity press.

It is not a vanity press, nor are there nomination fees.

"Everything," he said, "is a vanity press until it makes money."

Although the company was started as an effort in self-publishing, it is far from being a vanity press.

The company has been described by critics as a print on demand vanity press.

Some Congressional books are published only by tiny vanity presses.

As a final bonus, the book suggests a possible new meaning for another term: vanity press.

It does not take profits from any of its author's book sales as "vanity presses" do.

Let us be clear about one thing - I am not talking vanity presses or self-publishing.

"Publishing it by a vanity press was my biggest mistake.

Vantage is also the largest vanity press in the United States.

Authors whose works have only been published by vanity presses are generally excluded.

University of Hell is not a vanity press.

Arcadia is neither a nonprofit publisher nor a vanity press.

"I will not go through a vanity press."

Wikipedia may be the world's most ambitious vanity press.

The vanity press takes over from copy editing through fulfillment, all for a profit on top of expenses.

He compares his operation to a vanity press: renting space to exhibitors and nothing more.

If the book seems to epitomize "vanity press," well, duh.

I'm a serious writer, and people don't look at vanity press authors as serious.

Sure, right now it's still got that vanity press feel to it, that snob value.

(Some were so elaborate they may as well have been printed by a vanity press.)

This company was considered by many to be a vanity publisher.

I'm really only going by my own book and those of a vanity publisher I used to work for years ago.

They are separate from the so-called vanity publishers, who pay huge sums to special companies to produce their books.

Vanity publishers thrive on that: for several thousand dollars they will publish a few hundred copies of anyone's book.

He was successful enough so that Ingstrup had to settle for a vanity publisher.

Cambridge Who's Who is a vanity publisher for executive, professional and entrepreneur biographies.

After college, she worked in New York at Vantage Press, a vanity publisher.

And at a price - $150 or so per 10 copies - far cheaper than even the new Internet-based vanity publishers can offer.

A vanity press or vanity publisher is a term describing a publishing house in which authors pay to have their books published.

Today, vanity publishers may offer web-based sales, or make a book available via online booksellers, but they generally provide no marketing.

Typically, those who create and distribute content for free are promotional entities, vanity publishers or government entities.

"I thought, I'm not a vanity publisher, and I want to avoid the appearance of this being something I do in my basement."

She paid $200 to a vanity publisher who ended up just photocopying her poem and accompanying artwork, making her first publishing experience "very disappointing."

Eight percent of all electronic books are romances, the RWA does not recognize vanity publishers who offer little or no editing or promotional help.

The anthology was published by Fortune Press, in part a vanity publisher that did not pay its writers and expected them to buy a certain number of copies themselves.

This digital vanity publisher offers any would-be author the chance to self-publish electronic books or short print runs of paper copies for a rock-bottom fee as low as $450.

The Uncritical Publisher - When budding author Peter Quentin finds himself in the middle of a scam involving a crooked vanity publisher, the Saint intervenes.

The Better Business Bureau commented that it had received "hundreds" of complaints concerning ILP, and that it considered the business a vanity publisher.

One target of his campaign is PublishAmerica, a company that claims not to be a vanity publisher but a "traditional publisher" that accepts or rejects books based on their quality.

After reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun.

A vanity publisher would have charged her much less, and if Mrs. Saltzman had put in the same amount of work promoting the book, it would have sold as many copies.

"Those include mom-and-pop publishers as well as vanity publishers," said Rea Christoffersson, the product manager for the guides, which are published annually by R. R. Bowker.

For $27,000 (£16,800), the San Francisco vanity publisher The Sharper Image offers 225-page hardbound corporate histories in limited editions of 100, for use 'as a public relations tool'.

Increasingly, then, 'vanity publishing' is being defined as a behavior rather than a set characteristic of certain companies or individuals, although there remain a handful of companies that clearly qualify as vanity publishers.

Although The Saint functions as an ordinary detective in some stories, others depict ingenious plots to get even with vanity publishers and other ripoff artists, greedy bosses who exploit their workers, con men, etc.