http://www.i2ipublishing.co.uk/
It's red flag time again, gang! A Google ad drew my attention to this UK-based publisher, and I don't think they're going to be grateful.
A website aimed at writers instead of readers is never a good sign. Without reading any further, something tells me that Mr Ross started the business because it's practically impossible for new writers to get published.
Told you so! And Mr Ross' first book, Fine Feathers, was released by PublishAmerica in 2005 and "received considerable criticial acclaim", according to his Amazon page. It has now been republished by i2i and joined seven other books by Mr Ross in the company's catalogue.
There's a brutally simple reason for this: most of the manuscripts received by publishers are unpublishable. It doesn't matter how many months or years someone devotes to their work, or how much they (or their family and friends) love it. If a publisher doesn't think it's saleable it won't be published.
Nonsense. Ten minutes in any branch of Waterstones should be enough to dispel this silly myth. How does Mr Ross think the established authors got started? And new writers who receive "countless numbers" of rejection letters would be well-advised to ask themselves why. Golden Word Sydrome? Dunning-Kruger effect? Sending your novel to publishers who specialize in other genres? The least likely reason is that the writer has produced a masterpiece which is rejected by the evil publishing cartel because they can only be bothered with established bestselling authors and celebs.
This isn't the only way modern vanity presses operate.
This is one of the ways. It's still vanity publishing, and thanks to POD and e-books the publisher isn't taking much of a risk. There are no prices on the website.
No, i2i isn't a self-publishing organisation - it's a vanity press. And I'm willing to bet that i2i is unknown to the world of real publishing.
So i2i publishes almost everything including poetry? Another red flag.
Publishers are in the business of selling books to readers, not making writers' dreams come true.
Many of i2i's book on Amazon.co.uk have a Look Inside feature, which unfortunately reveals that most of them aren't edited to anything approaching a professional standard. The most basic errors haven't been corrected:
Well, you get the picture. I find it hard to believe that books of this quality get bookstore placement, and the dismal rankings of the older ones suggest that sales are poor.
Oh, and a name very familiar from the old PublishAmerica threads turns up a couple of times in the reviews...
It's red flag time again, gang! A Google ad drew my attention to this UK-based publisher, and I don't think they're going to be grateful.
A website aimed at writers instead of readers is never a good sign. Without reading any further, something tells me that Mr Ross started the business because it's practically impossible for new writers to get published.
Told you so! And Mr Ross' first book, Fine Feathers, was released by PublishAmerica in 2005 and "received considerable criticial acclaim", according to his Amazon page. It has now been republished by i2i and joined seven other books by Mr Ross in the company's catalogue.
There's a brutally simple reason for this: most of the manuscripts received by publishers are unpublishable. It doesn't matter how many months or years someone devotes to their work, or how much they (or their family and friends) love it. If a publisher doesn't think it's saleable it won't be published.
Nonsense. Ten minutes in any branch of Waterstones should be enough to dispel this silly myth. How does Mr Ross think the established authors got started? And new writers who receive "countless numbers" of rejection letters would be well-advised to ask themselves why. Golden Word Sydrome? Dunning-Kruger effect? Sending your novel to publishers who specialize in other genres? The least likely reason is that the writer has produced a masterpiece which is rejected by the evil publishing cartel because they can only be bothered with established bestselling authors and celebs.
This isn't the only way modern vanity presses operate.
This is one of the ways. It's still vanity publishing, and thanks to POD and e-books the publisher isn't taking much of a risk. There are no prices on the website.
No, i2i isn't a self-publishing organisation - it's a vanity press. And I'm willing to bet that i2i is unknown to the world of real publishing.
So i2i publishes almost everything including poetry? Another red flag.
Publishers are in the business of selling books to readers, not making writers' dreams come true.
Many of i2i's book on Amazon.co.uk have a Look Inside feature, which unfortunately reveals that most of them aren't edited to anything approaching a professional standard. The most basic errors haven't been corrected:
Well, you get the picture. I find it hard to believe that books of this quality get bookstore placement, and the dismal rankings of the older ones suggest that sales are poor.
Oh, and a name very familiar from the old PublishAmerica threads turns up a couple of times in the reviews...
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