vanity publisher
Author-funded printer
A vanity publisher is a company that charges authors to publish their books, rather than paying authors for their work.
Unlike traditional publishers, which select manuscripts and bear production costs, vanity publishers accept virtually anyone willing to pay.
The term is disparaging—implying the author's vanity drives the arrangement rather than the book's merit.
She paid a vanity publisher three thousand dollars to print her memoir.
- bookBound written work
- editorOne who revises text
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
- print-on-demandProduction upon order placement
- profit marginsPercentage kept from sales
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Company that acquires manuscripts
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