Their combined annual output amounts to around 70,000 books. However, there are still many thousands more books written each year that never see a bookshelf. These publishers claim to market and sell your books for you by showing them to the head offices of the main book shop chains and sending review copies to the press. Your chances of selling any copies or of getting any reviews in this way will be almost zero because most of the main book shops and reviewers know who the vanity publishers are and will not consider any book published under that imprint. Self Publishing Self-publishers, however, do not suffer from that stigma, and do not have to spend anywhere near so much money.
Vanity publishing is for naive victims with more money than sense.
Self-publishing is for those who are astute. It infers a knowledge of the publishing process far exceeding that of most authors, and gives you the prestige of owning your own publishing house. It doesn't matter if you know very little about the publishing process because that is where we can help. The process is cheaper if you supply your text to us on a floppy disk rather than as printed pages. Next, you'll need an artist to design and produce your jacket.