And vanity publishers have little incentive to cut into that profit by providing high-quality publishing and marketing services. Far from being a contribution or a share, your fee will likely cover not just the entire cost of publishing your book, but the publisher's overhead and profit as well. However, vanity publishing is a whole different business model from traditional publishing, with profits primarily derived not from book sales to the public, but from author fees and self-purchases. The implication is that the publisher contributes something of value to match or exceed whatever the author is being asked to pay or buy: the lion's share of publishing costs, for instance, or some kind of deep publishing expertise.
Any publisher billing itself as "hybrid" demands further investigation.Ĭo-Publishing and Partner Publishing: These are also euphemisms beloved of vanities. Regardless, the term is extensively misused by vanity publishers trying to look more legitimate.
Publisher plus Offline#
Hybrid Publisher: There's some disagreement over whether there actually is such a thing as a hybrid publisher-a company that charges substantial fees yet provides a service that's otherwise equivalent to traditional publishing, including rigorous selectivity and editing, high royalties, offline distribution, non-bogus PR, and more. I'm going to provide a snapshot of some of these below. These companies reel in scores, hundreds, and even thousands of writers, often doing business on an industrial scale. But there's a select few about which we hear most often, via writers' questions and complaints. Writer Beware's files include hundreds of them, large and small. Vanity publishers, unfortunately, are not in short supply.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®
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