vanity press

noun

: a publishing house that publishes books at the author's expense

called also vanity publisher

Examples of vanity press in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Maybe that was for the best, but on the other hand, why not set him up with a ghostwriter and a vanity press and let the yarns rip? —

Jonathan Kasdan, New York Times, 15 May 2018

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