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I recently attenpted to contact publish america, to get the right back to my book. It changed its name in 2014, and since 2017 it has stopped accepting new authors. Closed company, did not warn authors, did not transfer publishing rights. Since 1934, more than 2,500 municipalities and counties have depended on american legal publishing to publish, supplement, and distribute their codes of ordinances. Traditional publishing the publisher pays the bill, not the author. America star books, formerly publishamerica, is a marylandbased printondemand book publisher founded in 1999 by lawrence alvin larry clopper iii and willem meiners. Go to the directory of american publishing companies to. Five star publishing is proud to have a wide array of titles featured in booklists western roundup. Heres our list of reputable book publishing companies you might consider working with.
A dutch selfpublishing service called free musketeers appears to have already entered into an arrangement with america star to publish english versions of its books. Flatiron books, the publisher of american dirt, said jan. America star books never charges any of its authors any money in return for producing and publishing their book and making it available to a worldwide audience. Sometime after september 2015, asbs about us pagewhich previously had touted its founding by book publishers with a long history of publishing experiencebegan to reference the new.
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America star books used to be known as publishamerica, the nononsense, hard driving pioneer that changed the american publishing landscape for good when in 1999 it forced an opening for tens of thousands of american authors to join what was until then an elite status of being published for free. You can call america star books at 301 6951707 phone number, write an email, fill out a contact form on their website store. In all of her novels the characters, male and female are all very independent and always lead their. I am an author that worked under publish america which was then turned to america star.
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Page 1 of 282 of all the publishing companies listed in the american publishers directory this is a list of all publishers in united states. American book company was formed in 1890 by the consolidation of van antwerp, bragg and co. Update june 2018 we understand the america star is no longer in business. Star bible offers a wide variety of bibles, christian books, and church supplies. American thread company published knitting and crocheting patterns in the 40s and 50s. American book publishing cheryl lee nunn writer beware began receiving complaints about american book publishing in 2001. Abp, which presented itself as a traditional publisher. Thats why publishamerica has already published 60,000 books written by 45,000 authors. American libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. Unique among all traditional book publishing companies, america star books has served 50,000 authors since 1999. Only to learn they were doing business under another name. The new york publishing trade in the early american republic penn state series in the history of the book smith, steven carl on.
America star books, also known as publish america, is the worst selfpublishing services company we have come across. We have built our business on relationships and customer service. I was told that the contract would last 5 years, and then after that, my rights would be given back to me since it was in fact my book. It was later changed to america star publishing company. I wrote, asking to have my book rights returned me. We produce and publish a book at zero cost to the author, period. Publishatlantica was headquartered in the uk in milton k. Their reputation was so bad that they changed the name of the company in an attempt to stay in business.
Predatory publisher month at indies unlimited some of you may be familiar with. America star books, formerly publishamerica, is a marylandbased printon demand book publisher founded in 1999 by lawrence alvin larry clopper iii and. Based in singapore, with offices in hong kong and china, we specialise in publishing, marketing and distributing educational books and materials. Becoming a book backer helps pay an outside editor and layout designer, and also the formatting for both print. Whatever your book is about, publish america is happy to publish it. If you think publishamerica will do what they say they will do, then you need to wakeup and smell the bullshit.
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