vanity press

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June’s novel, “Pepsi-Cola Addict,” was published by a vanity press that has since gone defunct.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2022

Smalley had arranged for the work’s publication, too: Gorham was a vanity press avant la lettre.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 23, 2016

He looked up the author, who has claimed to have published other books under other names, and the publisher, Cow Eye Press, and realized it was a vanity press incorporated in Wyoming.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2015

Last month, at age 70, he finally paid a vanity press thousands of dollars to publish it.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2015

Vitale paid a vanity press $4,375 to publish it.

From Forbes • Jan. 22, 2014