| 单词 | vanity publisher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvanity publisher vanity publisher n. originally U.S. a publisher who publishes only at the author's expense. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > publishing > publisher > [noun] > publisher at author's expense book club1815 vanity publisher1922 vanity press1969 1922 R. C. Holliday & A. Van Rensselaer Business of Writing 138 Numerous devices are employed by the ‘vanity publisher’ to lead the innocent author on toward becoming famous in his own eyes and those of his friends. 1978 Amer. Notes & Queries Nov. 45/2 There are all sorts of literary histories, ranging from the pathetic things by which vanity publishers con local authors into expenditures far beyond their means, up to the CHEL and comparable works. 1984 H. Spurling Secrets of Woman's Heart 19 Ivy placed Pastors and Masters..with a small firm of ‘vanity’ publishers called Heath Cranton in Fleet Lane, paying for publication herself. < as lemmas |
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