From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:11:09 -0400

Seen today:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/lap_lambert_academic_publishing_my_trip_to_a_print_content_farm.single.html

This is a not-quite-vanity press -- they will in fact "publish" your
book without asking you for money; then they will ask you for money,
encouraging you to buy an appreciable number of copies of your book.
The book may be virtually any master's or even baccalaureate thesis
they can find evidence of on the web anywhere.  By this model they
"publish" tens of thousands of books.

What's interesting is that there's clearly a need being met and
clearly a business model at work here.  Few serious readers of this
piece will make excuses for the model, but the company will continue
to find those tens of thousands of authors, who will find value in
even this sketchiest of deals.

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown