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Apr 18, 2024 · To help you protect your work, your bank account, and your dignity, we're going to highlight some of the shady companies you should avoid — and give you tips on how to spot a publishing scam at ten paces. Five types of publishing scams (and how to avoid them) Click to tweet!
Aug 27, 2018 · You can use Amazon KDP, Apple, Nook, Smashwords, and Draft2Digital, to name a few of the many reputable self-publishing services. With these companies, you can publish a book with only a minimal investment in preparing your book. But unfortunately, some new authors continue to fall for the same old traps.
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May 7, 2024 · May 7, 2024: Members have reported a pair of scams targeting new authors seeking publishing assistance. Two companies, Noble Ghostwriting and Amazon Publish Center, charged exorbitant upfront fees ($13,750 and $25,055, respectively) without delivering the promised services or support.
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In 2020, OMICS changed hundreds of URLs and overhauled websites and typesetting to remove references to OMICS. It also introduced a ‘Hilaris’ brand. Although the titles of the rebranded journals remained listed on the OMICS web pages, mentions of OMICS are absent on the Hilaris web pages, as well as those for other subsidiaries. The Journal of Surg...
One tactic predatory journals have used is to mimic longstanding legitimate journals online (or sometimes to acquire the titles). Predators rely on the journal’s reputation to collect fees1 without providing scholarly services. In August, scholar Anna Abalkina at the Free University of Berlin reported that a list of COVID-19 publications maintained...
Why go to all this trouble? One possibility is that OMICS is seeding fledgling journals to attract paying customers. Also, OMICS has footnotes in some plagiarized articles claiming that work was presented at predatory conferences, falsely suggesting that these are vibrant, professional events. (The FTC judgement found that such conferences are a si...
Predatory publishing has flourished as more reputable journals charge authors publication fees and scholars remain under intense pressure to publish. OMICS is just the tip of the iceberg of a swiftly evolving fraudulent business model. Following the ruling against OMICS, economist Derek Pyne at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada, remark...
Instead of repeatedly severing heads for new ones to regrow, policy that combats predatory publishing should focus on starving the Hydra of resources. Here’s what we recommend. Audit peer reviews.To determine whether a journal is predatory, evaluators rely on many ‘indirect’ clues, such as dead links on websites, poor English grammar, or lack of li...
- Kyle Siler, Philippe Vincent-Lamarre, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière
- 2021
Apr 6, 2023 · This page contains an overview of common publishing scams and rules to keep in mind when evaluating whether a potential offer is a scam. You can also read a frequently-updated list of publishing scam alerts here. Online scams against authors are on the rise and becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Aug 16, 2019 · From the Philippines, Not With Love: A Plague of Publishing, Marketing, and Fake Literary Agency Scams. POSTED BY VICTORIA-STRAUSS FOR WRITER BEWARE® ON AUG 16, 2019. I don’t think there’s much dispute that the many “imprints” under the Author Solutions umbrella are among the most negatively regarded of all the author services companies.
May 14, 2021 · However, dig deeper and you’ll spot what is often a clue to a scam approach: the email protocol is not what Macmillan uses. Nor would a real email address mis-name the company (it’s Macmillan Publishers, not Macmillan Publishing). UPDATE 8/6/21: Here’s the email writers receive from “Kristen” if they sign the contract.
