PublishAmerica - Scam or Legit?

lilac4766 It's quite obvious that you are NOT a published author. Authors DO NOT market their own books. That's the publishers job. That is if you are talking about real publishers. $24.95 for a 16 page hardcover is IMO very overpriced. I get the impression that you are affiliated with these people and are refusing to admit that they are NOT real publishers. Get the facts first before you start leading the cheerleading squad.

of POD's lulu is the way to go for self publishing, however self publishing should be a last resort. You will get zero marketing support, and self publishing has a bad reputation and 90% of all bookstores will not carry self published books. Even the smallest of presses have a better shot of getting your book in a bookstore then even lulu. Its true there are one or two success stories that people will use to "prove" me wrong, but in the end traditional press is always the better deal.

All I know is that I gave them my credit card number, and then changed my mind the very same day. Even after their "shocked" response as to why I was cancelling, they went ahead and charged my card. I then sent numerous emails requesting a credit and heard nothing. Now the charges are in dispute with my credit card company. I would NEVER recommend this company to anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!

February 25, 2009 It appears that there has been no activity on this blog for a year so I may be commenting to the wind, but anyway, I will. I sent the manuscript of my book, DOVIE back in the summer of 2008 to PublishAmerica. They accepted the manuscript as written and stated that on the first inner page. I was over whelmed that I was going to be a recognized author, not only in the United States but worldwide as well. PublishAmerica promised to send a picture of the book and a brief review to over 32,000 book store computers worldwide. WOW!!! How exciting. Well, they actually did that but it's filed so deeply in the computers that a person would actually have to luckily come across it when they were looking for something else to actually find it. It certainly had made no appearance on book shelves until I decided if someone was going to promote my book, it would have to be me. I am really comfortable with this however. I am going on 82(11 year widower), with excellent health and was just drying up sitting at home, playing a little golf, working in the yard and walking four miles on my treadmill five days a week. I had been a very successful salesman all my life and missed selling something worthwhile to people I enjoyed talking with. So I felt my book was a very good and touching non-fiction book. So after the Christmas Holidays, I got out my old business suits, shined my old shoes, got out my old briefcase and started out selling my book. I quickly realized that my book was just another book among the thousands on bookshop shelves. I drew up my own plans and started. My plan has been turning out exactly as I expected it to and now I don't care if PublishAmerica offers any help at all. I am regularly getting my books on the book shelves. It is a secret plan that I may sell some day but for the moment I will just use it myself as I progress nationwide and worldwide in getting the book out on the shelves. In regard to PublishAmerica, I have been disappointed lately with their sales promotion. Just this week, they sent out an offer of 50% on the books with one free for every one bought, PLUS shipping. When I inquired by phone, the costs of shipping 300 of the books, I was given a price of $4.94 for the first book, then $2.95 for each additional book. That came out to almost three times the costs of the 200 books. I grew up in an orphanage and am a high school dropout but I certainly didn't just fall off a turnip truck. Just watch DOVIE for the next year as Dovie becomes a best seller and I will have great fun selling it. Good luck to all.