Page Publishing Reviews

This is a not a classic publisher. They act like it. This is a SELF PUBLISHER. They lie from the beginning. They took $1995 credit card before I signed all the paperwork. BUYER BEWARE! They are predators! They will charge you thousands of dollars for something you can get free on Amazon. I highly discourage anyone wants to business with them. Hope you have good lawyers!

Stay away, this is a very expensive scam. I had to find this out the hard way. I have a book with them. I'm going to give you all the real scoop on these crooks.

They stopped returning my calls when my coordinator quit, apparently because she was tired of lying. I had a good relationship with her, at least I thought I did, but turns out she's a liar too.

This company had me in an exclusive 2 year contract. Every two years I have to pay $90+ dollars to keep my book on sale. Only in the fine print do they tell you that if you do not call or write them to cancel the publishing contract two months before my contract expires that I would be stuck with them for another two years.

The only other company I heard charged a two year renewal fee was Fulton Books but I can't confirm it directly. I threatened to give them a bad review if they didn't return my call and lo and behold they called within minutes after not returning many calls and emails.

They put in the renewal contract that any dispute with them must be in writing and settled in arbitration. Not in court, or through a class action suit. Two sections stood out to me, now watch this...from right out of the contract. I am now with another publisher and they are the best. An absolute breath of fresh air but I will get to them later.

First, the contract:

1. Publisher makes no representations, projections or guarantees as to the projected sales volume of the Work.

2. Any dispute, controversy, or claim between Publisher and Author regarding this Renewal

Agreement or the original Publishing Agreement will be submitted to mandatory and binding arbitration under the terms of the rules of the American Arbitration Association as then in effect. All claims must be brought in the party's individual capacity and not as a class member in any purported class or representative proceeding. Arbitration proceedings shall be heard in Crawford County, Pennsylvania by a single arbitrator serving at the mutual designation of the parties and each party shall be solely responsible for their own attorney's fees in connection with said arbitration.

Any issue concerning the applicability, interpretation, or enforceability of these procedures, including any contention that all or parts of these procedures are invalid or unenforceable, will be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. No discovery will be permitted in connection with the arbitration and all aspects of the arbitration will be confidential. Any arbitration award shall not include exemplary or punitive damages. The arbitration award will be final and binding on the parties and may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.

The publisher for my new book is so fair, I just love that whole team. They get back to me right away, their agreement is fair, it's not an exclusive so I still retain 100% of my rights, not that I would even think of going anywhere else. I don't have to pay $90 every 2 years. My sales have been great. I actually sold books and a lot of them which shocked me because I didn't sell any through Page. They market my book, and even built my website. I can check my royalties as they come in. The difference between New Book Authors Publishing (the best publisher) and these scam artists is night and day. The terms about arbitration is to keep people from writing bad reviews about them. Do not engage them. They are liars and crooks.

I signed an agreement with Page Publishing on July 13, 2022. The entire project was to take six- ten months to complete, and cost $4,000.00. Part of the agreement guarantees a full copy edit of my manuscript. This includes proper syntax, word usage, sentence structure, consistency and much more.

However, upon receipt of the initial edit, it was evident that my manuscript was not reviewed by an editor. The only corrections made were punctuation marks. That is why I asked for a full refund of $1293 after the first edit, which was refused.

I am very disappointed with the poor, unsatisfactory service provided by Page Publishing. In my opinion, the coordinator, who I caught not being truthful with me, is in charge of the whole process. I believe that there was no editor.

During the second edit, I found more errors made on their end that needed to be corrected. This raises the question, did anyone initially read my manuscript? Also, I was told to point out which parts of my manuscript contained poor editing, which I believe is the editor's responsibility. This confirms that they only rewrote the corrections that I made. This is not what I signed up for.

Furthermore, there is no customer service. Nobody knows anything. All questions in my case were directed towards an untruthful coordinator. I have sent them multiple emails and letters asking for a refund and officially ending my cooperation with Page Publishing. I have yet to receive a response on this matter. I will go into more detail later. Thank you. Peter Luk

I published Modern Gothic through Page Publishing, which is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, etc. I personally found them to be very helpful, and they fulfilled their obligations.

I was not impressed with this company. They are only interested in getting your money. I had the same experience with Christian Faith Publishing. I was not impressed with them either.

Seems like companies that are charging authors a lot of money can run expensive commercials and ads. Their websites also look like infomercials. After reading the reviews here from beginning to end and reading better business bureau complaints on Page, and confirmation from my interactions with them I decided not to take a chance.

It took weeks to find a publisher because there are way too many scammers out there pretending to be publishing companies. One company that called itself a ghostwriting service and "publisher" tried to charge me $16,000 to market my book and guaranteed me thousands of sales. Too many liars!

I went to message forums and Facebook groups to learn how to publish my book on my own but found a lot of the authors make a lot of rookie mistakes that ultimately hurt their books. Some of them were banned from Amazon for breaking rules they didn't know about. Rather than take a chance on doing it myself, I did take the advice of some of the other authors I saw here and in some feedback comments on other platforms and went with New Book Authors Publishing.

Now I'm going to pay it forward and recommend the same. They did a great job with my book. They were friendly and actually cared about my book. I'm publishing my second now, which I did right away. I'll do my best to warn other authors about the scammers. I have a long list of them that didn't sit right with me.

Please please please research these companies before you work with them. Find one who works for you and if it sounds too good to be true then it is. If they have commercials and pressure you into publishing a book, they are not real publishers. Real publishing companies don't chase clients like desperate fools.

I am the author of the book; The Rise Of A Street General, An Autobiography by Michael Turtoe Stewart.

Me and my cousin paid a total of $3,522 to have my book professional published by Page Publishing company.

I paid to have this book placed into the Online Book Club only to discover later that the Editing & Proofreading was of poor quality. There was total of 108 misspelled words & bad usage of words. I believe this company intentionally failed to uphold their obligation as a professional company for two reasons: 1) my book was not a common part of this company genre and 2) being that i am Black.

I believe it was this company intentions to cause me public embarrassment.

Any one that read my book will have no problem detecting all the errors in this book. I have filed a compliant with the BBB in hopes to have this matter rectified and be financially compensated.

If you are a black author with a nonfiction urban story you want published. I suggest you consider another that has a history of publishing black authors works.

If anyone doubt me. Read my book yourself. Then leave an opinion.

My experience with Page Publishing mirrors many complaints here. I'm interested in joining a class action lawsuit or attending a social group with those of similar experiences. Any information is helpful

Scam.

They do have a great art department and page designers. They will not do a complete edit on manuscript for customers. You will have to give page and line numbers in Excel to their experts to “edit”.

Yes, you will have to pay an English major to check grammar and more! They will do a very general edit and mail it make for you “to approve” in a PDF formate. You will have to re read your manuscript and find errors for them.

Yes, Chicago Manual is quoted but not used with authenticity or consistently. Of course every time they insert your corrected spelling or grammar they MISSED- they count as their edit!

The coordinators copy and paste their response., never being honest. Worse experience ever! Don’t go with them! Liars and thieves!

Read the reviews here and on the feedback page of Page Publishing's website and contacted them about publishing my book and was disappointed with everything I learned about them.

Unfortunately, I don't have room in my budget to make large monthly payments to them for a monthly bill, not that I would have published with them even if I could afford it. Somehow, I got the distinct feeling Page Publishing didn't care about plunging me into debt.

I ended up going with one of the other companies recommended here, New Book Authors and I am so glad I made that choice. They were super nice and did a great job on my book. Page Publishing is okay, but I was not impressed with the quality of the books they published, which looked a little generic and amateurish to me on top of their outrageous publishing fees.

I felt like I needed my lawyer present, the contract was so sketchy. So naturally I backed out before signing anything. Plus they hound you so much you end up feeling guilty for not responding to them. I told them I was no longer interested and that I'm already published and I'm still getting emails months later. I regret even giving them my information.

Every book requires scrutiny and direction from editing professionals. I received great care from one of Page Publishing's project coordinators, Lana Beers. From there I developed a sense of trust with the copy editors. They were honest from the very beginning, noting that although this is a painstaking process, it is necessary to arrive at a finished product everyone can be proud of.

The inventiveness and attention to detail from the artists in developing covers for both of my books, "Chance Evers" and "Two for the Seesaw," gave me the confidence I needed to promote them. You can see their work by searching Bill Heitland at www.twofortheseesaw.com or Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55579315-chance-evers

I recommend Page Publishing for anyone who would want their work to stand out.

I came here a few weeks ago because I grew tired of looking for a traditional publisher. The whole experience was killing my self-esteem and I almost gave up on publishing my first book. These companies just don't give you the opportunity. I wasted my time submitting my manuscript to dozens of publishing companies, and most of them didn't even read it before telling me no. Eventually, I decided to go a different route. Even though I read mixed reviews about hybrid publishers, Page Publishing seemed like a good place to start.

That said, I always do my research. After reading comments on the Better Business Bureau, Quora, and a bunch of other reviews out there, I decided not to go with Page Publishing. $3700 just seems a bit high to me for the quality of work, not to mention how they treat their customers.

I took the advice I found in the comments here and chose New Book Authors publishing as the publisher of my children's book. I worked with Junior, the illustrator. He did a phenomenal job with the artwork. The end result was a beautiful children's book, my dream come true. If you could see me I am beaming ear to ear. I'm so glad I went this route. Just thought I'd offer my two cents.

I wish I had found this page BEFORE going to Page Publishing. I suspected that something was not right with them, but also knew that I had no experience whatsoever in this area.

So I went to them, with the knowledge that I was "paying for education" in this area. So, call me crazy, but even though I had a manuscript that had been edited TWICE by industry professionals, they still said that they needed to do their own editing. Also, I had my cover photo shot by a professional photographer I know, so they didn't have to do anything there either. After their "edit" they came back with less than a dozen corrections in a 300 page manuscript. The fee they charged me was roughly $3700.00. In their sales pitch, they offer you a web page for your book. The "web page" they offer is INTERNAL. You actually have to sign onto their site to access it, so it's not accessible to the public. They also mention radio interviews, which I have yet to hear anything about. They dangle a "marketing package" out there, which actually you can put together yourself for a fraction of what they want to charge you!

Much of this is not really made clear until you sign the initial contract. It actually took them a year for my book to go live. During that period, they align the "stages" of publishing your book to coincide with the payment schedule they've set up. You're admonished that should you miss a payment, publishing of your book will be suspended until you make the payment. Once the payments have all been made they place your book online and make it available in print form. You are informed that you will get "Quarterly sales reports", however you will only get royalty checks if your payout is $100.00 or greater. If it's less than, your payout will be sent in the next quarter. Funny, but despite several persons through my OWN PROMOTION on social media have alerted me that they have purchased the book, and have shown proof that they have done so, my quarterly report only reflect less than 6 copies sold. While I certainly never expected to "get rich" with the sales of the book, it's publication and distribution means a lot to me, and of course is my work. I certainly didn't intend to make a bunch of scam artists rich off of my effort. STAY AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE!!!

Helpful people (Jenna was great) and professional work. You get what you pay for!

I read every review I could find before taking a leap of faith and boy am I glad I stopped here! Their book covers looked mediocre for what you pay, and they ask for 3,000 and still take a cut of your royalties. If I'm covering my own overhead, then why am I giving them a percentage of my royalties?

After reading everything else I went with New Book Authors as everyone else suggested. I also used their marketing and they don't take a piece of the royalties. I was sold from that point and haven't looked back. They did a good job on the marketing and a beautiful job on the book.

Thanks for the feedback. It helps when people are trying to make a decision.

I watched a guy use this company to publish a book of...(drum roll)...really bad poetry. Yes, they not only accepted his compilation of truly horrible 2-line rhymes - they also filled his head with notions of becoming a best-selling author. So, he borrowed the $3000 (while living in a hotel) with dreams of making it big. Last I heard, he was on Facebook begging for someone to buy his book...and homeless still.

You have to be kidding me if you think any of the “publishers” mentioned above (including the vultures who are leaving comments to call them) are legitimate. If you are working with and/or paying them any amount of money, you have failed as a writer. Just give up. It’s ok.

I am pretty sure that for all their hype they do not do what they say as far as editing is concerned. I Looked at the books they have listed on their website. Their covers are nothing special, any talented amateur Could do as good a job using a cheap android tablet and free apps from playstore. On the other hand when I went to Amazon books and had a peak inside I have to doubt that these books were ever seen by a professional editor. The copyright page on every book is done badly. The proof reader failed miserably, as almost every book has typos and/or other errors on the first page. I suspect that there is no editing done at all. Certainly there can't be anybody proof reading the books before they are published. One book even has typos in the Table of Contents. Absolutely inexcusable and if it was my book I would be demanding proper service or my money back.

I'm new to publishing and just got a couple emails from book publishers and page was one of them. I'm SO GRATEFUL that I looked them up first!!

There are a lot of people jumping on the publishing bandwagon making all sort of claims.

As a publisher for over 25 years, I've heard many sob stories from authors who paid big bucks to get their book published.

Authors, please do your homework before committing your hard-earned cash!

Why pay these rip-off Vanity Presses to publish your work. CreateSpace is a great option and costs nothing to follow their simple step-by-step publishing program. If you have questions, please contact me. I have helped over 20 authors become published authors who are extremely happy with the results. I have published 12 books through them and have never paid a dime. I can order one or one-hundred books with books costing an averag$3,00 with shipping. Check the out, what have you got to lose except about $3000/00