Publishamerica does not think the authors that query them can be published unless they pay

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 3:44 PM CST PublishAmerica Acquisitions wrote:

>Dear Author:
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>We are a traditional publisher where we publish for free. We are showing authors how much it costs to publish with a vanity press and that we do the same things (publishing, marketing, distributing, etc) the same way but all for free.
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>It may interest you to know a bit more about PublishAmerica as the potential publisher of your work.
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>More than any other publishing company, PublishAmerica is a grassroots publisher. Whatever the scope of our success may be, it is primarily the success of our authors, talented writers who dwell in Main Street America and who had been shunned and rejected by mainstream publishers before they found PublishAmerica. They have become known in and beyond their local universes, they have made other people talk about them and their books, and now together they have made the world listen.
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>Among them are celebrity authors such as Merilyn Read, producer of the Tom Green Show and writer of TV specials such as Babar and Father Christmas and The Teddy Bears' Scare; Sandor Stern, original screenwriter of The Amityville Horror; Olympic Gold medalist Latasha Colander Clark; Hedda Nussbaum; and Pulitzer Prize winner William Coughlin. Others are making celebrity names for themselves, such as author Benjamin Frazier whose book "Shelly's Diary" is being turned into a Hollywood movie.
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>Here is a brief overview of PublishAmerica:
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>- Each day, over 100 new authors request to become PublishAmerica authors
>- Each year, over 25,000 new authors request to become PublishAmerica
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>- 3,000,000 households served
>- 40,000 proud authors on board
>- Thousands of positive newspaper reviews, interviews, or feature stories
>- Thousands of book signing events in bookstores across the nation
>- Ten years in business
>- Ten years of steady growth
>- Ten years of doing what no other publisher has ever done before,
> much less for free: bringing a status of class to a previously
> ignored mass of aspiring authors.
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>Thousands, each and every month, of PublishAmerica books are sold in bookstores across the nation. Bookstores buy a PublishAmerica book almost two thousand times every day. The PublishAmerica message board is overflowing with testimonials from our authors about their books being stocked in bookstores. Hundreds of bookstores across the nation stock our books.
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>Roughly a hundred new authors come knocking on our door every day, hoping to join our legions of published authors. Although we will not sign a contract to almost eighty percent of them, they all know that PublishAmerica has dramatically lowered the barrier for new authors to become published at no cost to them.
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>PublishAmerica underwrites all costs that are involved with publishing books, down to the last penny. We charge our authors nothing, ever, earning our income by selling books only, which is the true hallmark of traditional publishing. Our contracts are industry standard and have been scrutinized and green lighted innumerable times by attorneys all over the fruited plain, which helps explain why we count hundreds of lawyers among our authors.
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>Our authors are changing an industry, and as with every change, this creates an occasional ripple of opposition. No wonder, if you look at the big picture. Until PublishAmerica arrived on the scene, authors who were denied access to mainstream publishing had only one alternative available to them: vanity, or subsidy, publishing where they were required to fork over substantial dollar amounts in return for seeing their book in print. It came with not only a much lighter wallet but with a bad stigma as well: pay to publish is not considered equal to being paid and published.
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>With the traditional concept of PublishAmerica now available as an option to everyone who has written a quality work, to date almost twenty-five million dollars have not gone into the coffers of vanity houses, but stayed in the pockets of our authors instead. It is not very hard to determine whose feathers this continues to ruffle. Neither is it difficult to predict which publishing concept rides the wave of the future, theirs or PublishAmerica's. And the vote is already in: see <http://www.publishamerica.com/testimonials/>http://www.publishamerica.com/testimonials/.
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>The following information is a list of several prerequisites for all incoming manuscripts:
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>Manuscript must have a minimum of 2,500 words or 50 poems for a poetry submission.
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>Up to 15 black-and-white illustrations may be considered to be included within the book.
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>Manuscript can not be in journal or work-book type format. It must be formatted as a traditional book.
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>Below are the prerequisites for PublishAmerica children's picture books:
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>Manuscript must be at least 5 pages, but cannot exceed 45
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>If submitting own illustrations, please submit a minimum of 5 but no more than 25
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>Please note that our children's books must be illustrated. Let us know if you do not have illustrations, as we do offer in-house illustration.
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>Please submit as directed in our previous email if you are interested. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
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>Thank You,
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>Acquisitions Department
>PublishAmerica
><http://www.publishamerica.com/>www.publishamerica.com
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