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A Book? Is That Like A PDF Or Something?
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Here's what this company offers: Give them $100,000 (or more) and they'll make you a book. They ghostwrite it for you, design the cover, lay it out, and publish it. Now, you COULD write it yourself and self-publish with Lulu for free or a few hundred bucks, but this company's offering the whole thing for people who have money to burn and no shame... er, who want to have the prestige of having written a book without the work of actually writing. It's the modern-day equivalent of those vanity press companies that used to advertise in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, only more expensive. And I just saw a guy -- a prominent ghostwriter -- trying to get Mark Cuban et al. to invest in a similar company on "Shark Tank." They didn't bite. Neither would I. (Los Angeles Times)
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