This list includes only fee-chargers that present themselves as publishers, and actively conceal their fees, try to pass them off as something else, or claim that fee-based publishing is not the major part of their business.Ģ. Note that we do not include admitted vanity publishers (even very expensive ones such as Dorrance) about which we’ve gotten no other complaints, or self-publishing services (even much-criticized ones such as the Author Solutions “imprints”). A nominal “advance” in the face of other fee-charging practices does nothing to legitimize such publishers. Fees range from a few hundred dollars to more than $25,000. Some publishers require authors to buy bulk quantities of their own books. Fee-charging–whether for the actual printing/production of the book, or for some other item related to the publishing process, such as editing or publicity.
All have two or more of the following abusive practices:ġ.
THIS LIST MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSIONīelow, in alphabetical order, is a list of the publishers (not all of them currently active*) about which Writer Beware has received the largest number of complaints over the years, or which, based on documentation we’ve collected, we consider to pose the most significant hazard for writers.
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