1, Report:
#1147107
Posted Date:
Jun 02 2014
Xlibris Corporation RIPOFF! NOT PAYING ROYALTY CHECKS! SCAM!! Philippines
In seven years, I only recived one royalty check for $7. I know many people who have brought the book. Called Xlibris. Company is located in the Philippines. They won't send me a statement. Total scam! I did all the work for the book. Getting nothing from it. They call me and w...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
2, Report:
#1019592
Posted Date:
Feb 24 2013
Xlibris Coproration Xlibris Corpoation publishing services is a Joke. Bloomington, Indiana
Xlibris Corporation Publishing Services is a Joke. I published a book in 2010. Since that time, I have had nothing but problems receiving my royalties. I was told on several occasions that my claim regarding my royalties is under investigation. This was more than 6 months ago. In ad...
Entity
Xlibris Coproration
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
3, Report:
#969760
Posted Date:
Nov 15 2012
Xlibris Corporation Charlie Duke, Xlibris Corporation, Xlibris Publishing, Xlibris Write Your Own Success Charlie Duke, Xlibris Corporation, Xlibris Publishing, Xlibris Write Your Own Success Bloomington, Indiana
Charlie Duke, a person working for Xlibris Corporation contacted me recently to offer a deal to publish my book. I said no because I was deceived and ripped off by Trafford Publish, which is a sister company of Xlibris. Without knowing what I went through with Trafford, Mr. Due said...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
4, Report:
#923379
Posted Date:
Aug 07 2012
Xlibris Corporation, Xlibris Publishing, Penguin Group, Sharon Lauta, AJ Barco Has been withholding royalties payments, underpaying me royalties, telling me they will pay and months and months have gone by with no payments received. Bloomington, Indiana
I have been an author with Xlibris since 1998 with two books self published through them. My second book is a premium full color picture book that costs $48.99. The book is in the distribution channel with Amazon with Light Source Publishing fulfilling the print on de...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation, Xlibris Publishing, Penguin Group,
Categories: Questionable Activities
5, Report:
#852564
Posted Date:
Mar 12 2012
Xlibris Corporation Author House (parent company) Fraudulent Sales Reports - All Around Ripoff Scam Bloomington, Indiana
When I decided to self-publish my first novel, I found a company in Indiana ~ Xlibris Corporation. I did my research and from all accounts, the company appeared reputable. My representative was extremely helpful in getting my process up and running smoothlyor so I ...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Book Publishers
6, Report:
#813717
Posted Date:
Dec 25 2011
Xlibris Corporation should be renamed to: Shyster Corporation I paid additional money for editing services which did not happen. This makes me look bad:Shame on XLIBRIS Bloomington, Indiana
Xlibris Corporation, advertise themselves as a self publishing company that will assist the writer with various levels of: Marketing, Editorial Services, Manuscript and Graphics Formatting. The services depend on how much the consumer pays. I paid for the Premium pack...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Book Publishers
7, Report:
#789615
Posted Date:
Oct 17 2011
XLibris Publishing XLibris Book Publishing, XLibris Corporation POD publisher, vanity publisher, self-publisher Bloomington, Indiana
On 5 July, 2011, I began discussions with a representative of XLibris Publishing to produce my third novel, Twisted Key. In the initial discussions and before paying for any services I made it clear to the consultant that I needed a cost-per-unit of around $6.00 before shippin...
Entity
XLibris Publishing
Categories: Book Publishers
8, Report:
#737907
Posted Date:
Sep 01 2011
Xlibris Corporation Xlibris Publishing in business to make money from writers, not readers. Bloomington, Indiana
Recently I had my first book published by Xlibris. I would not recommend this company's services to any writer. It became obvious to me (after they had my money) that the staff knows almost nothing about the art of writing and even less about the English language.The twenty-four pho...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Book Publishers
9, Report:
#751012
Posted Date:
Jul 10 2011
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xlibris Corporation Dishonest, Ripoff marketing Bloomington, Indiana
I, like many other authors who self published their book wit xlibris, am very dissapointed fedup with xlibris marketing services. They are incapable to livie up to their promises given in their marketing packages. This is so because after four months of my pu...
Entity
xlibris Corporation
Categories: Telemarketers
10, Report:
#542712
Posted Date:
Apr 05 2011
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Xlibris Corporation Illegally removing my own book from AMZN.com and replaced it with a book that was 5 years old WITHOUT my permission. Bloomington, Indiana
Everybody at Xlibris I have dealt with have been ignorant and totally uncaring even though Xlibris is clearly illegally infringing on my copyright and has cost me thousands of dollars in lost sales... .These people were so incredibly incompetent when I first sent them a draft of a m...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Desktop Publishing
11, Report:
#672845
Posted Date:
Dec 18 2010
Xlibris Scam Xlibris Corporation Fraud Bloomington, Internet
Quite simply, Xlibris is a fraudulent, dishonest and incompetent, disaster zone. Xlibris is nothing more than a quick-buck scam printer, posing as a "print-on-demand publisher", and it has one of the highest complaints percentages for a small business of it's type - with n...
Entity
Xlibris
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
12, Report:
#597990
Posted Date:
Oct 20 2010
XLIBRIS CORPORATION I had my novel White Redling published with Xlibris Corporation in 2005, but there is no way I can verify the copies of my book that they sell. Bloomington, Indiana
I had my novel, White Redling published with Xlibris Corporation in 2005. At first, it looked good when they sent in royalty reports. But soon, I learned that my brother had bought a copy in Las Vegas and I waited for the sale to be reported to me, but it never happened. I wrote the...
Entity
XLIBRIS CORPORATION
Categories: Library
13, Report:
#615591
Posted Date:
Jun 21 2010
Xlibris Corporation they too $ thousandsand never produced a finished dbook, refuse to correct errors,the backcover was embrassing,I made them stop production.See Norma1944 Blog on worldpress.com. They are a scam, no roy pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Xlibris publishing, aks: Xlibris Corporation. Refused to send me copy of contract. For two years I tried to have xlibris to correct errors, bookcover front & back was in-correct, the wording was incorrect.
They placed my book for sale on Amazon, Barnes & Knoble,THE IN...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Liars
14, Report:
#87597
Posted Date:
May 15 2010
Xlibris Corporation ripoff poor service mediocre product Philadelphia Pennsylvania
The first three times I self-published books through Xlibris it was a pleasant, hassle-free experience. The fourth time has been a nightmare, and a very expensive one.
I was told the project would take 4-6 months. It ended up taking 9 months. I submitted the manuscript in June. T...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
15, Report:
#496642
Posted Date:
Apr 23 2010
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Xlibris Corporation WRITE YOUR OWN SUCCESS STORY I SENT IN MY MANUSCRIPT AFTER I PAID $500 FOR MY BOOK AND I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY RETURN ON MY MONEY OR EVEN SOLD A BOOK. Internet
I SENT IN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO GET MY BOOK PUBLISHED AND I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY ROYALTIES OR HEARD ANYTHING FROM THE COMPANY AFTER MY MANUSCRIPT WAS SUPPOSEDLY PUBLISHED. THIS SELF PUBLISHING SCAM IS UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE I PUT MY TRUST AND HOPE AS WELL AS MY PERSONAL THOUGH...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Book Publishers, Computer Fraud
17, Report:
#540025
Posted Date:
Dec 16 2009
Xlibris Corporation xlibris publishing company won't send my signed contract. i am trying to end my contract but they won't let me. won't answer my calls, won't return my emails. when i get through to them lay hang up or have me on hold for long Bloomington, Indiana
xlibris won't answer my emails so that i can end my contract with them. they won't answer my calls. they won't send me a copy of the signed contract between me and them. they call me trying to get me to buy things from them too much. they don't promote your book. they are not the co...
Entity
Xlibris Corporation
Categories: Questionable Activities