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Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Joe Woods

Joe Woods — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:49:57 +0000

Good morning reader,
I’m finishing the final edit of my 5th novel and want to send the transcript to Lambert. Sounds like they are a reputable publisher, but as in all businesses there are some disgrundled customers.

Thank you,

Joe Woods

Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Roder

Roder — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:07:45 +0000

1. all these mud slinging are absolutely unnecessary. Lambert Publishers never forced anyone to publish with them. Publications are based on some terms and conditions which is subject to the authors acceptance

Yes, but what we question here is precisely those terms and conditions, which are exploitative and fraudulent.

2. I also strongly believe that they give consideration to the quality and marketability of manuscripts before they are accepted for publication and that is why they are in business.

They don’t. They send emails offering people to publish undergraduate essays, talks, and all sort of “acadmeic” texts. SOmetimes recipients of these emails are baffled because they are invited to publish stuff that they didn’t write (like courses they attenden, all because their name appeared in Google or a university database near a title of something acadmic). They fish manuscripts via spam email, how selective is that?

3. The books are not only sold in Amazon.com but also in so many internet bookshops all over the world.

Only one or two, and if you check the Amazon reviews you will come across loads of anger directed at them from customers.

4. So why call such a venture a scam? They emphasis ab-initio that Royalties payment depends on the volume of sales and authors are encouraged to make their modest contributions towards the sales promotion.

They sell self-publisshed, print on demand books at an average of 70-100 dollars. They know perfectly well that no one is going to buy those “books” apart from the author. The royalties they offer are irrelevent.

5. I am strongly convinced that this is not a scam but I can see a calculated attempt to destroy the image of the Lambert Publishers and I don’t understand what the perpetrators of this evil stand to gain from it. I see this as anti-marketing and business destructive forces at work and this kind of destructive tendencies should be discouraged by all right thinking people.

What do we gain? We are waringn people not to tie up their academic work to a shady “publisher” who will make money out of it while giving zero diffusion to the manuscript because at those prices most of those books will only exist as Amazon thumbnails. We are warning against a printing service that advertises itself as an academic publisher.

6. Lambert Publishers published my book which has been posted for sales in virtually all the countries in all the continents of the world. By so doing they have spread my name beyond the shores of my home country into all the continents of the world. Even if they don’t pay me much Royalties at the end of the day, I won’t be bordered about that or begin to rubbish them. My candid advise therefore is that just like every other human enterprise, if there are areas we feel that they are not doing very well, we can give them suggestions on how to improve upon them in order to serve us better. Please let us stop this unnecessary destructive campaign against them.

They don’t wabnt suggestions, they know perfectly well what they are doing. And this is not a “campaign”. Most of the information available on teh internet about them is negative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM_Publishing#Criticism

Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Reuben, O.

Reuben, O. — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:25:30 +0000

All these mud slinging are absolutely unnecessary. Lambert Publishers never forced anyone to publish with them. Publications are based on some terms and conditions which is subject to the authors acceptance. I also strongly believe that they give consideration to the quality and marketability of manuscripts before they are accepted for publication and that is why they are in business. The books are not only sold in Amazon.com but also in so many internet bookshops all over the world. So why call such a venture a scam? They emphasis ab-initio that Royalties payment depends on the volume of sales and authors are encouraged to make their modest contributions towards the sales promotion. I am strongly convinced that this is not a scam but I can see a calculated attempt to destroy the image of the Lambert Publishers and I don’t understand what the perpetrators of this evil stand to gain from it. I see this as anti-marketing and business destructive forces at work and this kind of destructive tendencies should be discouraged by all right thinking people. Lambert Publishers published my book which has been posted for sales in virtually all the countries in all the continents of the world. By so doing they have spread my name beyond the shores of my home country into all the continents of the world. Even if they don’t pay me much Royalties at the end of the day, I won’t be bordered about that or begin to rubbish them. My candid advise therefore is that just like every other human enterprise, if there are areas we feel that they are not doing very well, we can give them suggestions on how to improve upon them in order to serve us better. Please let us stop this unnecessary destructive campaign against them.

Comment on What Strange Spam Is This? by Mikhail

Mikhail — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:58:45 +0000

Hi everyone! I am from Russia! I also received a letter … I was asked to publish a book. But I do not know whether to trust them! Help please

Comment on Notes on “Semantic Hashing” by Lucian

Lucian — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:30:10 +0000

“dropping Hinton’s course” – which course are you talking about? Right now a Coursera course is in progress, but certainly you are not talking about it. Which else, then?

Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Roder

Roder — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:07:27 +0000

Richard: You might have to go back up and read all the messages as well as other testimonies in other blogs and in Amazon.. Lambert does not only published PhDs and MSc, but also all sorts of dissertations, class essays, conference papers, talks… and even class notes. They offered me to publish the notes that I had made for a final year class… And, crucially, even those ‘books’ (ie: individually printed and binded pdfs with a isbn) that are the product of a postgraduate research work do not even need to have received a pass grade to be published, there is no reason why you could not publish a failed MA essay with them. And if I want to read someone’s PhD I could check it online or order a copy from a university library rather than pay an inflated price to buy a printout from some shady ‘publisher’.

See this review for instance, of a book priced at 42 GBP which is in fact the print out of a final year dissertation available for free at the University website:

Deconstructive Discourse of Content as Reflected in: Haddis Alemayehu's "Fikir Eske Mekabir"

Do you seriously believe that this is not a scam?

Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Richard

Richard — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:29:13 +0000

I think there is nothing wrong with Lambert. They just seem to have found a good market approach. Any thesis (either PhD or MSc) represents a piece of work that has already extensively been reviewed by a university or other institution granting the degree. Lambert’s assumption that such a thesis does not require another, editorial review is, therefore, correct. OK, not all universities of the world represent the highest scientific level, but so do not all publisher’s edditorial staffs. I personally have more confidence in universities than in publishers in this matter. What Lambert does, is even freeing the prospective authors from publishers’ interference in the nature of their messages, which in some cases (not all of course) can improve the quality of those messages. Hold on Lambert!

Comment on Notes on “Case Study Research Design and Methods” by hari

hari — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:34:48 +0000

good guidance

Comment on What Strange Spam Is This? by akshansh shrivastav

akshansh shrivastav — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:05:50 +0000

Dear Akshansh Shrivastav,

I am writing on behalf of the International publishing house, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

In the course of a research on the Swami Keshwanand Institute Of Technology, I came across a reference to your thesis on “Recognition of Student Comprehension using The Circumplex Model of Affect”.
We are an International publisher whose aim is to make academic research available to a wider audience.
LAP would be especially interested in publishing your dissertation in the form of a printed book.

A PDF brochure about main aspects of our services can be downloaded via the following link : https://www.lap-publishing.com/information/LAP%20Pamphlet.pdf

Your reply including an e-mail address to which I can send an e-mail with further information in an attachment will be greatly appreciated.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards

Cristina Sevcenco
Acquisition Editor

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing is a trademark of:
AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG

Heinrich-Böcking-Str. 6-8
66121, Saarbrücken, Germany

c.sevcenco@lap-publishing-house.com / http://www.lap-publishing-house.com

Handelsregister Amtsgericht Saarbrücken HRA 10356
Identification Number (Verkehrsnummer): 13955
Partner with unlimited liability: VDM Management GmbH
Handelsregister Amtsgericht Saarbrücken HRB 18918
Managing directors: Thorsten Ohm (CEO), Dr. Wolfgang Philipp Müller, Esther von Krosigk

what should i do next????

Comment on What Strange Spam Is This? by smilingbird

smilingbird — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:39:07 +0000

I saw legit.
A wierd way to do bueinss though.
As I read above, why not if you are never going to publish anyway.

DrP

Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Joe Woods

Joe Woods — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:37:11 +0000

I have been contacted by a representative of Lambert, Ms. Hanna Meyer, concerning her desire to publish my next novel. The manucript is ready for publishing but now I have a concern that this publisher my not be legit? Am I correct in that conclusion?

Joe

Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Francesca

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Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:17:22 +0000

All of the critical replies, such as, “… my friends published several books with LAP, but never receive any royalty fee as promised,” are a strategy of misdirection. They appeal to the idea that the desire for public acknowledgement, citations, and tangible publication of said works, is more important than royalty checks, thus they make people focus on the lack of getting funds, and legitimize the concept of publication. Look up Lambert publishing on Amazon. You will probably find at least a few authors that have been published by them. Then look at the publication dates, the number of works they have published within specified date range, and finally the over generalized topic focus across the multiple “books,” all very fishy. I know my research is much more focused than that. An example I found, Mohammad Mohsin Khan, obviously a medical researcher, maybe even an epidemiologist, but his net is wide, and he was a busy little bee in 2010; check him out for yourself.

Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by hakan

hakan — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:50:20 +0000

I got the same soliciting e-mail from LAP. It is a sort of a vanity press and I think no serious scholar would consider publishing with LAP/VDM as this could compromise his/her credibility and harm his/her reputation.

Comment on Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square by Josep M.

Josep M. — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:49:36 +0000

I and my friends published several books with LAP, but never receive any royalty fee as promised. Now we really know that LAP is a scam, a deceiving company. Tell your friends and everyone as many as possible not to become a victim of this company. Say “no” to this fraudulent company. This is my direct experience.