vanity press
/ˌvænəti ˈpɹɛs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In 1956, having had her book turned down by commercial presses who were unwilling to publish a work on lesbian literature, Foster spent $2000, her year's salary, to print the book through a vanity press, Vantage."
- "The self-published book is the joke of the literary world: whether one goes to a printer and has the books made up with one's own imprint, or goes to an "author-subsidized" publisher known in the trade as a "vanity press," doesn't matter: It's easy to tell a real book from the pretenders. […] It's harder to tell with software. A lot of software is published by small startups. Some of these would certainly qualify as vanity press jobs in the book trade, others wouldn't. But there's a far higher number of successes among small software publishers than there are in the usual vanity press book."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌvænəti ˈpɹɛs/
- British English: /ˌvænɪti ˈpɹɛs/