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Vanity Publishing Must Die.

Last week we discussed how publishers exploit writers. One class of publisher takes this exploitation to an art form.

They are vanity publishers. One author recently contacted me. He had paid over $20,000 to have one book published.

His publisher also had control of his ebook pricing and had set the ebook price at $12 to encoura…

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