ACADEMIC (VANITY) PUBLISHERS
I am again in pursuit of a Publisher and I know that they are not what they used to be. Before I reach out to them, I read their web page to make sure I am not sending a feeler into a den of thieves. Vanity presses disguise as bona fide enterprises to lure the writer or researcher. Today I perused W.W. Norton ´s Web page and saw the number of useless titles they publish. Are they vanity? I read "If you wish to send a letter to an author, please send it to our offices... we will kindly forward it on." This reminds me of the dictum from the Bible: "If the blind lead the blind..." People in the publishing business who don´t know how to write (or is it rite, right?) or even edit. Suck on that! After this, I opened the University of Texas Press , and more of the same except it is piled higher and deeper. Vanity Press again? A certain Alberto Moreiras has been published there, a title that reads like this "Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist." I am the first to ...