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What
is Vanity Publishing? What is a Vanity Publisher?
A vanity publisher is:
"any company which charges a client to publish a book; or
offers to include short stories, poems or other literary or
artistic material in an anthology and
then invites those included in it to buy a copy of that anthology."
(British Advertising Standards Authority Advice Note, Vanity Publishing,
July 1997)
However, many such companies prefer to use other terms, which
you may find misleading, such as:
- Joint venture publishing
- Co-Operative publishing
- Subsidy publishing
- Shared responsibility publishing
- (incorrectly) self-publishing
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