A vanity press or vanity publisher, sometimes also subsidy publisher, is a publishing house where the author pays to have the book published, and signs...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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] In 2009, Harlequin Enterprises announced the creation of a vanity press imprint, Harlequin Horizons. The Mystery Writers of America, Romance...

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...

"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...

in 1949 and ceased operations in late 2012. Vantage was the largest vanity press in the United States. By 1956, they were publishing hundreds of titles...

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...

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...

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

government reports at high prices. The publisher is classified as a vanity press on Beall's List. "Company Overview of Nova Science Publishers, Inc"....

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

LLC was a Christian publisher that printed books that operated on the vanity press model. They ceased operations in January 2017 and owed their customers...

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

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...

licensed; professionally published works or historical source documents, not vanity products. Verification was initially made offline, or by trusting the reliability...

or vanity presses. Algonquin Books Arte Publico Press Atlantic Books Bellevue Literary Press Blackwell Publishers Coffee House Press Etruscan Press Faber...

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

A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges artists fees to exhibit their work and makes most of its money from artists rather than from sales to the...