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5 Reasons To Avoid PublishAmerica

Although a person can go to any search engine such as Yahoo or Google and type in the term 'PublishAmerica' or 'Publish America' [using the quotes gets more results], many authors refrain from doing this. This is a gigantic mistake on their part as they generally have squandered a manuscript that they've spent many months or years working on, and have eliminated their chances at getting published with a legitimate publisher.

PublishAmerica is a tiny online based publishing company run by a trio of unpublished authors, namely Dutch born and raised Willem Meiners who speaks and writes English as a second language, Larry Clopper, a computer programmer, and Miranda Prather, a poet. Unlike the 'traditional' mainstream publishers that they are constantly comparing themselves to, this executive staff is under the delusion that they are changing the publishing industry. Instead of admitting on their patriotic looking web site that they are a vanity POD [Print On Demand] publisher with a strict no-returns policy that exists solely to sell the authors' books back to the author him or herself, this company pretends that they are radically altering the publishing world.

Authors, if the above hasn't already dissuaded you from signing a PublishAmerica contract, please think about the following points:

1.Your book will NOT be stocked in a chain or independent bookstore due to the no-returns policy, high cover price, and short discount.
2.The Publish America team of editors consists of teenagers and young adults who run spelling/grammar checks on manuscripts, which doesn't amount to much if you have ever used a standard word processing editing program. They also have a non-editing option you can choose which will allow your book to be released in a matter of weeks rather than months. Editing for story, length, characterization, and content doesn't exist in the PublishAmerica editing stable.
3.You will receive an author's questionnaire in which you are asked to disclose ......

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