English Dictionary

vanity press

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌvænɪti ˈpɹɛs/

名詞

軽蔑的

(derogatory) A book publisher that lets the author pay the expenses of publishing up front, leaving the risk of financial failure with the author.

日本語の意味

自費出版。著者が出版費用を前払いし、出版に伴う経済的リスクを自ら負う出版形態（否定的なニュアンスを含む）

After his novel was rejected by multiple agents, he reluctantly turned to a vanity press to get his book into print.

彼の小説が複数のエージェントに断られた後、彼はしぶしぶ著者が出版費用を負担する出版社に頼って自分の本を刊行した。

意味（1）

(derogatory) A book publisher that lets the author pay the expenses of publishing up front, leaving the risk of financial failure with the author.

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.

vanity presses （ plural ）