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What they are disparaging are long-established honest businesses that carefully select the manuscripts that are most likely to sell and pay the authors for the rights to publish these works.
Red Flag #5: "We'll list your books on Amazon.com!"
Getting your book listed on Amazon.com is as easy as going online and filling out a form. Anyone can do it. And a listing on Amazon isn't a guaranteed path to success. Even in this day and age of online commerce, something less than 10% of all books sold are sold online. The vast majority of books are sold through bricks-and-mortar bookstores. While you may possibly be able to talk your local bookstores into carrying your self-published book, the only way to get it into bookstores across the nation is by getting a distributor to carry it. That can be expensive (which is one reason that the vanities don't bother with distribution), and distributors won't touch vanity books (which is the other reason). Distributors and bookstores also don't like POD (publish on demand) books, because they can't be returned if they don't sell. Booksellers, unlike most businesses, expect to be able to return or destroy unsold books and get their money back. It sounds crazy to other businesses, but that's how it is. If the publisher can't offer distribution services to get your book into bookstores, it's not a publisher that will serve you well.
Red Flag #6: Bad review on Preditors and Editors and Writer Beware
Yes, it's really spelled that way, for alliterative purposes. Preditors and Editors is a website chock full of scam warnings and wise advice to writers. Writer Beware, on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America website, has a list of current scam alerts. Both are useful when researching a potential publisher. If any publisher disparages either of these sites, beware!
If you can spot these red flags, you can avoid most publishing scams. The best way to protect yourself, though, is to educate yourself about the publishing industry. Read as many books on writing and publishing as you can get your hands on. Find out how the industry works, and find out how to market your work in the genre you are writing for. Stay abreast of industry trends by reading Publisher's Weekly or visiting their website. With a little education, you can help put the scammers out of business.
The trend with cost effective advertising have been using flags to promote a business. Whether it's feather, swooper, teardrops, or flutter flags, these have been inexpensive for business to promote passerby traffic. Standing 16 feet tall sometimes with bold, bright, and beautiful colors; flag advertising is a good method to draw attention and increase business flow.
Not all forms of attention focus advertising have to be for commercial usage. Advertising flags are attractive and there are other possibilities they can be used for. If you are having a large family picnic at park with lots of attendees, these flags can be useful for directional purposes. Having a few flag that reads "Jones" spiked into the ground draws attention. And usually with park gatherings, it's hard to find the specific location of where the group would be held at.
I came to thw world of lags after discovering a love for travel when I was younger. I am fascinated by flags of the world and the countries that they are related to.
SOURCE : http://goarticles.com/article/Publishing-Scams-Six-Red-Flags-That-Scream-Rip-Off/5491182/
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