PRLog (Press Release) –
May 08, 2008 – PUBLISH AMERICA books are not carried in any national bookstore chain. They have a poor return policy and are overpriced by 25% according to Barnes and Noble spokesperson. "We have never and will never carry a Publish America book in our stores"
PA has a policy of selling overpriced books to it's authors at an inflated rate. The Authors in turn are encouraged to market their own works. PA does no marketing for it's authors.
Under reporting of sales is another issue many PA authors have. PA claims that the sales ranking on Amazon books has no meaning and in no way relates to sales.
To further insult it's authors the Amazon advanced search will give you the exact sales ranking of every book sold by PA. Again PA claims this has no relation to sales the numbers mean nothing.
One author who ranked #10 in sales for PA on Amazon only sold 16 books according to PA royality staement. That is #10 out of 24,011 books currently being sold on Amazon for PA.
Authors who complain are blacklisted from the highly censored PA messege board. Any complaint is quickly removed and that author is banned from further postings.
PA is nothing more tha a variation on the old vanity press. Any author who is thinking of signing with PA need only to GOOGLE PA and see the negitive postings.
According to one PA author. "They are the destroyer of dreams. " taking the work of aspiring authors and holding it for a ransome for seven years. When is the BBB of Maryland going to put a stop to the criminals at Publish America
