vanity press
Example Sentences
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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
Wikipedia is committed to the notion of an encyclopedia, a written compendium of important human information—not a directory, a soapbox, a vanity press, or anything else the site has pledged not to be.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019
Smalley had arranged for the work’s publication, too: Gorham was a vanity press avant la lettre.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 23, 2016
Vitale paid a vanity press $4,375 to publish it.
From Forbes • Jan. 22, 2014
Her last book, “War and the Cosmos in Picasso’s Texts, 1936-1940,” was published in 2007 by a vanity press.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2010
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