vanity publishing scam

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The vanity publishing industry has taken a beating the last few years, due to bad publicity (Tate Publishing!) and the ease of self publishing. But there are still plenty of suckers out there so uninformed, lazy, or paranoid enough to make easy prey for the remaining vanity publishers. What’s vanity publishing? In short, a vanity…

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It’s May 2017, and America (and the world, really) is still reeling from perhaps the greatest case of affinity fraud ever perpetrated: the election of Donald J. Trump to the American Presidency.   Let’s look back at Tate Publishing, as a company deeply interlocked with some of the mindsets enabling Trump’s election: nominally ‘Christian’ worldviews…

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