Subsidy and Vanity Publishers - What Are They and Who Are They?
The definition is short and sweet:
Wikipedia - “A vanity press, vanity publisher, or subsidy publisher is a term describing a publishing house in which authors pay to have their books published.”
The Free Dictionary - “A publisher that publishes a book at the expense of the author.”
Authors who self-publish also pay to publish their own books. But if they use a subsidy press, they are not truly self-published because another factor besides money comes into play - ownership of the ISBN:
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Wikipedia - “A vanity press, vanity publisher, or subsidy publisher is a term describing a publishing house in which authors pay to have their books published.”
The Free Dictionary - “A publisher that publishes a book at the expense of the author.”
Authors who self-publish also pay to publish their own books. But if they use a subsidy press, they are not truly self-published because another factor besides money comes into play - ownership of the ISBN:
Street...
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