Vantage Press Closes -- comment #22 from Dave Bell
With Pearson buying Author Solutions, I have to wonder why. It's a multi-national buying a set of brands with a low reputation. The amount of money spent looks like enough to set up their own...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #21 from Jim Macdonald
Not surprising, Craig. Vanity-published authors will do amazingly worthless things, including buying blogads, in an attempt to get noticed.Posted December 20, 2012 2:59 PM by Jim Macdonald
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #20 from Craig R
There 8 titles from Xlibris in the advert space on Making Light's right side...Posted December 20, 2012 2:43 PM by Craig R
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #19 from Jon Baker
Whoops, found an online bibliography, it wasn't Vantage, it was "Pond-Ekberg", and then "Veridon". I don't think he was under any illusion that they were more than a printing service. Pond-Ekberg seems...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #18 from Jon Baker
Starting in the late 1970s, my grandfather's law partner published over a dozen volumes of bad poetry through Vantage. We kept the one where he memorialized Grandpa. I think he sent them as December...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #17 from Charlie Stross
Whoops! Apropos #12, yesterday was not a good day for my brain. What I meant to say, was: there seems to be a recurring pattern by which an incumbent niche business is ticking along nicely, making its...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #16 from Jason King
I am an author with Vantage Press. I was trying to call them last week to ask a question. Nobody picked up the phone. How are they going to close without letting anyone know? I know they don't think...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #15 from Xopher HalfTongue
Good to see you here, Scraps! Thanks for the interesting information...and a real chuckle at your verbal wit.Posted December 18, 2012 4:39 PM by Xopher HalfTongue
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #14 from Scraps
I used to do proofreading for Vantage. Very few were worth it, i.e., funny in a bad way; most of them were just unpublishable in a paid-money kind of way. (They paid me, though. In a stingy way.)Posted...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #13 from Mycroft W
Ah, Cadbury Moose, another who uses that expansion of the acronym. Everyone I've used it with who hadn't heard it does a back-check to CA, and then says "ah, yes. Of course." Exactly my reaction when...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #12 from Charlie Stross is Gnomed. Again.
Yep, sounds like $BUSINESS_MODEL simply dried up and blew away. Same thing happens regularly in the computing biz. Who else, today, remembers Mark Williams Company's Coherent OS? (TL;DR: it was a...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #11 from Jim Macdonald
More than "that they'd promised their authors." That their authors had paid for.Posted December 17, 2012 11:35 PM by Jim Macdonald
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #10 from Ellen Asher
Ken Houghton @ 4: IIRC, Vantage took out those NYTBR ads under court order. They got sued for failing to do the promotion that they'd promised their authors; need I say that they lost?Posted December...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #9 from Michael Walsh
In 1952 Vantage published "Driftwood" a book of poetry by Thomas Burnett Swann.Posted December 17, 2012 11:10 PM by Michael Walsh
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #8 from Paula Helm Murray
Halle-freeking-leujah. While I was in college, my father gave them my name because he knew I was writing, and somehow thought they might 'help'. It took getting married and two moves to lose the stupid...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #7 from Mary Aileen
Cadbury Moose (6): A desert topping? Would that be sand, or cactus? I think a vanity press is what they use to smooth out the tops of bathroom counters.Posted December 17, 2012 6:15 PM by Mary Aileen
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #6 from Cadbury Moose
No, Vantage is an Aston Martin model. Presumably the press is for making the body panels. It's also an IBM mainframe storage management package from Competitor Acquisitions. (That is probably Too Much...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #5 from Fragano Ledgister
Wasn't Vantage a brand of cigarette?Posted December 17, 2012 3:51 PM by Fragano Ledgister
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #4 from Ken Houghton
Of all the vanity presses, Vantage at least made half an effort, taking out adverts in the NYTBR and similar publications. I'm not much, but it's a lot more than the more recent rounds of FL-based...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #3 from Tom Whitmore
No, a vanity press makes much smoother vanity than the old-style drip vanity makers.Posted December 17, 2012 3:04 PM by Tom Whitmore
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #2 from mneme
No, a vanity press is a fancy iron, isn't it?Posted December 17, 2012 2:29 PM by mneme
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #1 from xeger
Ah, mornings: vanity press == clothes closet for person fond of their appearance...Posted December 17, 2012 10:12 AM by xeger
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One of the oldest of the vanity presses, Vantage, has apparently closed up shop. Founded in 1949, Vantage is/was one...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #23 from Cadbury Moose
Mary Aileen @ #7 Um, my profreddeur had no chance of spotting that one. "Desert topping" may well involve Land Rovers, camels, scorpions or all three. (Yikes!) Mycroft W. @ #13 Their "company song" was...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #25 from Jim Macdonald
#24 Joan Beard: Go over to http://www.bookfinder.com. Search on the title. You'll discover that up to nine copies are listed used, at prices starting around fourteen dollars. You could check with your...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #24 from Joan Beard
My Aunt Elnora Worder published a book through Vantage Press called "The Killing Fields of Third World Women". How can I get more copies since Vantage Press went out of business? Posted May 27, 2013...
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #26 from P J Evans sees more spam
The invasion continues.Posted June 28, 2014 12:24 PM by P J Evans sees more spam
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #28 from Serge Broom sees SPAM
SpamPosted November 4, 2014 7:29 AM by Serge Broom sees SPAM
View ArticleVantage Press Closes -- comment #27 from internet
Launching PR, main website and email promotion, and paid campaigns in as coordinated an effort as possible will help drive a burst of interest and hopefully downloads. Article Source: author writes for...
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