There are some decent auto spell checkers are there not? Why couldn't PA extend their authors the courtesy of running the stuff through it?
Two reasons: firstly, they don't have the time, given how few staff have to put out how many books, and secondly, why should they do this when most authors aren't likely to notice the errors or point them out?
Sending out another batch of emails offering an author discount is more likely to pay the bills than showing authors the courtesy of running a spell check. After all, most authors will buy their books whether or not the books are riddled with errors.
FACT #9: Does the use of the digital on-demand printing technology make a publisher a POD house? No, it does not. Of course not. According to www.acronymfinder.com, there are 57 different meanings for POD, from Post Office Department to Point Of Departure to Proof Of Delivery. In our world, POD is vanity publishing, and PublishAmerica is no vanity publisher, by any stretch of the imagination.
You can instead come out of the closet and admit that you are a vanity press. You'd still be selling books.
Dear Author,
Here it is: PublishAmerica's one-week-only Christmas Sale offer!
PublishAmerica authors receive a 50 percent discount on all orders. Shipping is FREE for all orders of 25 copies or more.
Phone orders only, at 301 695 1707, between 9am - 5pm EST. Sorry, hardcovers are excluded, but full-color books are included! Free shipping within USA only. Special sales code: Santa. Offer expires this Friday, December 12.
Thank you!
PublishAmerica Author Support Team
I'll bet that they'll extend it due to a fabulous response. Any takers?
Tri
But I am really sick of getting them. What do you guys advise?
I also got this e-mail. I have been thinking of writing them to ask them to stop sending them, but I hesitate. First, I don't know if it will do any good. I don't want to get a tone letter from them because it will really pee me off, and last I simply do not want any further contact with them. But I am really sick of getting them. What do you guys advise?
I also got this e-mail. I have been thinking of writing them to ask them to stop sending them, but I hesitate. First, I don't know if it will do any good. I don't want to get a tone letter from them because it will really pee me off, and last I simply do not want any further contact with them. But I am really sick of getting them. What do you guys advise?
Tell me more about the bounce thing. I don't think I have it. I use outlook express. Maybe I'll check my DSL settings. Thanks.
Dear Author,
Here it is: PublishAmerica's one-week-only Christmas Sale offer!
PublishAmerica authors receive a 50 percent discount on all orders. Shipping is FREE for all orders of 25 copies or more.
Phone orders only, at 301 695 1707, between 9am - 5pm EST. Sorry, hardcovers are excluded, but full-color books are included! Free shipping within USA only. Special sales code: Santa. Offer expires this Friday, December 12.
Thank you!
PublishAmerica Author Support Team
You don't see Random House sending letters like this to the writers they publish. That's because Random House is a commercial, mainstream publisher which sells its books to readers, and not to the people who wrote them.
Special author promotions like this are a sure sign that you're dealing with a vanity publisher, and not with a mainstream publisher.
If you get a letter like this from your publisher, take a moment to consider that few self-published or vanity-published books ever sell as many as 100 copies before you take advantage of their offer. Because if you don't, you're likely to end up with some very expensive boxes stacked up in your hallway for the next couple of years.