vanity press or vanity publisher, sometimes also subsidy publisher, is a book printer that is paid by authors to self-publish their books. A vanity press...

evangelist and renounced her career as Vanity in the 1990s. Vanity was the lead singer of the female trio Vanity 6, which was created by the musician Prince...

Informally, a vanity label (compare vanity press) is a record label founded as a wholly or partially owned subsidiary of another, larger, and better established...

the publishing industry, due to the tendency of vanity presses to masquerade as hybrids. A vanity press will publish any book. In return, the author must...

Look up vanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vanity is excessive self-regard and overblown pride. Vanity may also refer to: Vanity (dressing-table)...

POD (Print on Demand), most self-publishing authors had to resort to a vanity press, which was costly and acted as a barrier to publication. Now, ebooks...

ISBN 978-1-136-85035-6. "Definition of VANITY PRESS". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 10 March 2023. "VANITY/SUBSIDY PUBLISHERS". SFWA. Retrieved 10...

notable legal and academic controversies, sometimes being labeled as a vanity press. Most, but not all, of its published works are in English. Following...

of a legitimate honor. Pitches for Who's Who-type publications (see vanity press), biographies or nominations for awards or special memberships can have...

Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and...

is that they are just vanity presses in disguise. The essential differentiating factor between a hybrid press and a vanity press is that a true hybrid...

not be confused with self-publishing presses (sometimes called "vanity presses"). Self-publishing or subsidy presses usually require payment by authors...

manuscripts. Critics had long claimed that PublishAmerica is actually a vanity press that paid no special attention to the sales potential of the books they...

bands's former guitarist Ben Hales and independently released on the Vanity Press label. It featured re-mastered studio, demo and live tracks on one CD...

CafePress, Inc. is an American online retailer of stock and user-customized on-demand products. The company was founded in San Mateo, California, but...

Vanity the following year, initially with Fallon Vendetta. After Vendetta's departure, Vanity became the sole member of the group. Since 2019, Vanity...

[citation needed] Marsh has a working relationship with BookSurge.com, a vanity press owned by Amazon.com. As a premium add-on service, BookSurge allows self-publishing...

in 1949 and ceased operations in late 2012. Vantage was the largest vanity press in the United States. In 1955, they landed a title on the national best-sellers...

Self-publishing, in this case, should not be confused with a self-publishing vanity press which are paid services. Both large and small production studios have...

and deceptive corruption of that model, operating as a disreputable vanity press with little scholarly value. In 2005, two scientists, David Mazières...

amateurish", condemning Jemas for using the Marvel corporation as "a vanity press for himself". Weiner, Robert G. (2008-03-17). Marvel Graphic Novels and...

1976 Christmas single "Christmas Is My Time of Year", released on a vanity press by producer Chip Douglas. In 1974 the Monkees' catalogue was transferred...

their unemployment benefits in order to get the novel published by a vanity press. This is the only accessible work by either of the Gibbons sisters, which...

lacking commercial ends. A vanity gallery is an art gallery charging fees from artists to show their work, much like a vanity press does for authors. The shows...

"In his autobiography, My life in the world of Horses, published by a vanity press Mr Ochoa writes that 'Don Fabio is to Colombia's Horse world what Garcia...

printing presses. The history of printers in publishing in Western Europe dates back to the mid-15th century with the invention of the printing press. Johannes...

Predatory open access publishing Print on demand Samizdat Self Publish, Be Happy Self publishing Small press Vanity award Vanity press or vanity publishing...

volumes. In a vanity press, the author takes the financial risk while the publisher owns the printed volumes.[citation needed] A vanity award is an award...

Some writers and authors' advocates have accused the company of being a vanity press while representing itself as a "traditional publisher". It changed its...

subsidiary Lambert Academic Publishing has been described as a predatory vanity press which does "not apply the basic standards of academic publishing such...