Publish America

Publish America aka America Star Books, is a very dishonest company and has been sued many times for fraud. It would be a good idea to not have your book published by them. The staff is very rude and nasty.

Don't sell your book to this company. Don't sign a contract, and lose the rights to your book. They will give you nothing in return.

They sell your books for marked up prices online. You can see your book is selling, yet you are making no money. They make money off of you, and then they send you royalty checks for a couple of dollars every several months.

They tell you that you will see your book in local stores, but that is a lie. They tell you that they distribute through Barnes and Noble, but they don't. You will lose all the rights to your book, and get nothing in return.

Research this site before you join... just google it and see for yourself so many others complain too

Well being a writer and just wrote my second book, publish america made promises on I seeing my book in all book stores, that it will advertised in the local paper, and also made into a movie... etc I have not seen any of these promises being done... not even one royalty pymt... after one yr... well this tells me they are not who the say... I would like to find a agent, or a publishing co that say what what they promise and do it... if any one can help me please do, and stay away from publishamerica.com

I have published my poetry book entitled "HI NEIGHBORS" with this online company.
They are shameless and liars. I HAVE NEVER GOT A PENNY of the sale of my book as promised in your agreement.
Every time I have called them to enquire about my royalties, they have always denied selling any of my book while it has been sold to many book retailers in the US and overseas, as well.
STAY AWAY from these crooks.

In 2008 i submitted a novel to publish america, the novel i submitted was already edited and formatted so all publish america had to do was print it, the novel in question is a good book, at first i was thrilled with publish america until i discovered that i paid for promotions that i never received, they wanted me to send the 2 sequels to the book but i refused to allow them to play me one more day, so i rewrote the book in question which by the way i had sold over 200 copies myself, and not to family but to strangers, i added chapters to the book and i recently released that version of my book through Ghetto Street Writers Publishing, an independent publishing company, now i'm on the journey of trying to sell copies of my book to a few large book vendors, publish america is a scam artist and their only concern is making money off their authors who order the book at minimum discounts and high shipping charges, i think that all of us who have been wronged should pool our resourses and come together in a class action suit against these scam artists and hit them where they hit us at in our bank accounts, but all of you that has been wronged please don't allow publish america to kill your dreams of becoming authors just learn from your mistakes with them and move forward and become productive authors.

Publish America is in Breach of contract SCAM
I am having problems with Publish America LLC; I signed a binding contract with them on December 19,2010 and was told in the contract, I will be giving my book sales statements in February and August 31,2011. Right to this day, I have not received any statement, not via email nor regular USPS mail. I have contacted Publish America on numerous occasions concerning this issue and I am being told by someone in the royalties' department b y the name Gail. She is telling me that I should have received my sales report statement and a royalty's check. She is telling me to give it 10 days and I asked her why so long after the due date of my check and book sales report. I also stated to her, that she is the manager over the royalties department and why she just couldn't send my sales statement right then since she received my via email letting her know I have not received anything from them. I feel like I'm giving the run around concerning my book sales and they are holding on to my check and book sales statement. They are in Breach of contract and I am ready to take any legal law suit action in getting this issue resolved. This is a case of copyright infringement. Please let me know if your firm can help. Thanks

P.S. I live in the state of Tennessee and moving back to Georgia in the first week of October. I also have proof of my contract and I did received a $1 advance check attach with a letter saying and I quote "Enclosed herewith, please find the $1.00 advance due to you under our publishing contract for 'what you don't know about your man & me' This symbolic payment emphasizes that we consider your book to be a serious and professional work, which is what made us decide to publish it. From Publish America.
Let us work hard to turn your book into a widely read success story. Sincerely Gail Author Support Team, Publish America, LLLP

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