![]() Active on Facebook, Michael founded and administers over a dozen popular groups, and a few unpopular ones. He's also an award-winning advertising copywriter who has worked on such brands as Pioneer, Acoustic Research, Columbia Records, Maxell, Volvo, Castrol, and Perdue chicken. He has been an editor at Rolling Stone magazine and has written for many science, music, business, electronics, automotive and general interest magazines, as well as newspapers. Marcus is the author of more than 40 books-including many bestsellers. ![]() This book was written to make potential customers of Outskirts Press and other vanity publishers aware of the trouble that likely awaits them, and to let vanity publishers know that their lies and failures will be noticed and publicized. They sell poorly, and are seldom reviewed. The books are often ugly, unedited and overpriced. Vanity publishers make most of their money by selling services and overpriced trinkets to na�ve authors - not by selling books to readers. Although Outskirts uses such buzzwords as "self-publishing" and "print-on-demand," it's really a vanity publisher. Outskirts uses such grandiose phrases as "a veritable army of publishing professionals" to attract customers - but those professionals tell lies to make independent self-publishing seem much harder than it really is. ![]() Its website, emails, press releases, blogs and promotional literature have factual errors, mistakes in grammar, spelling and arithmetic- and deliberate distortion. Outskirts is also inept (and dishonest) when it promotes itself. When authors are disappointed and enraged., service reps hide behind the fine print of a contract that does not warrant that books will be error-free. Some of those books, and the press releases that promote them, are filled with silly errors that should have been avoided. Outskirts Press calls itself "the fastest-growing full-service publishing provider." It published seven books in 2002, its first year, and over 5,000 books in 2009.
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