- Report: #568999
Complaint Review: The Mellen Press - Lewiston New York
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Cristian -
London, Other, United Kingdom
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The Mellen Press
415 Ridge Street Lewiston, 14092 New York, United States of America
Phone:
716-754-2266
Web:
www.mellenpress.com
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The Mellen Press D. Simon Evans (founder),Herbert Richardson Editor-in-Chief,Patricia Schultz (rude office lady) bad deal for authors, rude, waste of time, self-absorbed, Lewiston, New York
Authors, Beware of Mellen Press
Mellen Press operates by publishing books written by Ph.Ds and experts who must first give Mellen exclusive rights. Then Mellen Press exploits its connections to sell the books at extremely high prices ( US$100 and up per copy) to libraries and universities and pays the book authors a pittance if and only if the number of copies sold exceeds an unlikely number. Mellen then puts a cap on total author's potential lifetime earnings. Authors desperate to be published accept these terms.
Mellen leaves it to the author to acquire endorsements, do all editing, proofreading, artwork, etc. to Mellen specifications. Mellen does not have to invest time or effort until the product is finished.
In addition, Patricia Schultz, the office lady who screens communications with the doddering Editor-in-Chief Herbert Richardson, is argumentive, rude and bitc*y. She does not return emails and hangs the phone up on contracted authors.
Mellen Press is a big waste of time. Take it from me, an author who now knows.
