VDM Verlag Dr. Müller

Web: http://www.dybbuk-press.com

VDM Verlag Dr. Muller is essentially a vanity press. Only instead of making money from the authors themselves, VDM Verlag makes money from the friends and family of the authors who buy the overpriced books. Their modus operandi is to approach graduate students and offer to publish their theses. There is no editing to speak of so the thesis is published as is. They use LSI to bind it and then slap on one of their set covers and put it for sale for a large amount - $76 is about average - in order to recoup all their printing costs. Other services that a legitimate press offers that they won't - editing, marketing, publicity, and cover art. They are not in the business of selling books to anyone but the authors and the friends of the authors They DO pay a royalty to writers but it's about $1 a book after the first 3 initial purchases. And since the maximum amount of books sold in this manner is 10, it doesn't justify the publication. Furthermore, the amount of respect garnered by publication in a VDM Verlag manner is nil at best. Most academics know that it's a scam and will look up CV's with VDM Verlag "credits" with understandable suspicion.

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Examples of published books

Tandler, Peter (2008): Synchronous Collaboration in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing. Saarbrücken, Germany, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
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Falke, Eileen (2008): The Associative PDA 2.0. Germany, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
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