I feel so sorry for them. It's a dream come true, and they don't see the scam because they don't know how publishing really works. Even if they've heard about "money flows *to* the author", PA has worked out how to use POD to get around that.
And the worst of it is that I'm sure that a few of the people scammed by the stealth vanity presses have books that *are* publishable. Maybe with some heavy revision, yes, but they've gone to a vanity press because they don't know any better, not because they can't write well enough to get the attention of a real publisher.
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Date: 2006-10-29 10:28 pm (UTC)And the worst of it is that I'm sure that a few of the people scammed by the stealth vanity presses have books that *are* publishable. Maybe with some heavy revision, yes, but they've gone to a vanity press because they don't know any better, not because they can't write well enough to get the attention of a real publisher.