From alfreda89: Publishing, Printing, or Scam by Laura Re...

From alfreda89 : Publishing, Printing, or Scam by Laura Resnick If you are thinking about self-publishing, you need to read this article.
"Self-publishing" and vanity-press scams (oh, sorry, "vanity publishing") are not forms of publishing. They are two distinct methods of being PRINTED, not PUBLISHED.

"Self-publishing" is a legitimate set of PRINT services and products offered to people with book-length projects that are not suitable for PUBLISHING (ex. family memoir, church-group cookbook...