Dorrance Book Publishing
Dorrance Book Publishing Overview
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Dorrance Book Publishing has 1.0 star rating based on 2 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
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Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Beware should you have issues and need help!", "Do NOT send a manuscript to another publisher without a customer report about them!".
Consumers are not pleased with Customer service and Diversity of Products or Services. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Dorrance Book Publishing has 1.0 star rating based on 2 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Beware should you have issues and need help!", "Do NOT send a manuscript to another publisher without a customer report about them!".
Consumers are not pleased with Customer service and Diversity of Products or Services. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
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New Haven, Connecticut
Poorly Printed Book little Help to Resolve
I received my printed book 9/5. The books pictures are positioned in the middle and the seam distorts all pictures and some words.
I had expressed concern about how they would appear in the proofing process and was assured they would seemingly present across both pages. Ive had to haunt promoting and turn down my local schools and library. This issue has gone unsolved since 9/5. I called Dorrance spoke with a representative who assured she would pass it in, still nothing.
I wrote Ashley Austen, still nothing.
My next step will be BBB or legal action! For $4200 and a small childrens book this process should have been much smoother!
User's recommendation: Beware should you have issues and need help!
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Espanola, New Mexico
Why was my book sent to Rose dog books? I paid you guys in full in December 2020 for publishing.
It is going on 3 years and not 1 cent have I received. I do not know why my manuscript was sent to Rose dog books in the first place.
There are MANY complaints for the same reason against Rose dog. Some going back 10 years. I need a full print out of what has been sold and explanation as to why I have not been paid! The better business bureau suggested I contact you for a start before filing a complaint with them.
Then I will contact my attorney again about this. Thank you Denise Balko
The Cuchillo Cat author
User's recommendation: Do NOT send a manuscript to another publisher without a customer report about them!
Disgusting and Despicable
RoseDog Publishing is a disgusting, despicable company that takes lots and lots of money from writers who are unfamiliar with publishing. They take advantage of writers who simply want to publish a book by charging them thousands of dollars for what the writer can do FOR FREE through Createspace.
Do you hear me, writers? Publish your book through Amazon for free! Yes, it's free to upload your book on Createspace and have it published on Amazon. Yes, Amazon will take 30% off each sale because they are printing it for you AND shipping it directly to your buyers for you.
They make it simple. You don't pay a dime up front. You only pay out of the royalties you're already making. Companies like RoseDog are laughable.
You MIGHT make pennies off each sale, but not until they feel like they've made enough off of your book first. Stay away from them!
This company works under many aliases. DO YOUR RESEARCH, or you will get screwed.
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Dorrence Publishing Scam
Last year I've contracted Dorrence for publishing . The service of their production center is ***.
One of the issues: last month I received my first check of royalties, turned out to be rejected by all local banks I kindly requested to enable PayPal. I guess this would take them 5 minutes to set up. But they doesn't bother because "it doesn't match their policy".
I'm very disappointed I have never encountered any support. My book also looks like ***.This is a story about Dorrance Publishing and I want to tell other idiots don't invest your money with this and be careful about contracts with vanity scams take a look into these vanity scams because believe it or not they don't care about your dreams coming true; they just really want your money.just because they been around for 80 years or more doesn't make them honest.
Sales to Amazon
I need your organization to stop sales of my book "The Valley" as it is a very poor presentation. I cannot help but feel that if you continue to offer the book to Amazon, or anyone else, it will be detrimental to my other works.
I have since republished through a different publisher and I ask that you stop selling the edition you have. If there is a question, please contact me at mike.kohler54@***.com. Thank you M. W.
Kohler.
P.S.
Rosedog was the one to distribute the work. I am seriously worried that your edition, will be a disadvantage to my future works and again ask that you cease selling, or supplying this book to Amazon
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dorrance/rosedog book publishing
I wrote a book, I escaped the grip of the Grim Reaper, I made a big mistake in choosing Dorrance/Rosedog publishing they are incompetant, and costly, When they informed me that my cost per book would be $7.80 I went through the roof. I cancelled my contract and went with Createspace.com, their system is much better and my cost per book is only $2.15. A lot better than $7.80, and the quality of the book is better too, if you want to write a book, stay away from Dorrance/Rosedog,,,,, Thank you Robert Alan Lee, iescapedthegrip.com
Um if you self publish with Create Space the never promise to do any marketing. It's entirely up to you to do marketing.
That is actually pretty much true of any publisher. The scam vanity publishers like Dorrence, Xlbiris, Author House etc.. will pretend to do marketing for large sums of money but none of their fake marketing will ever sell books and is just a scam.
Even the real big genuine publishing houses do *** all except for promote their NYT best sellers and their new authors get very little. Create Space is actually honest and admit you will have to do it all yourself though they don't offer to do, read the rules properly.
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All these types of companies are scams
I am sure this happened.
I was going through Dorrance Publishing but my book was published through Rose Dog. I have had my few copies for a month and still have not been able to order on line because my code doesn't work and there has been one issue after another.
I was a first time writer and thought the book looks GREAT. The service is questionable so far.
I was hoping I could just order more books before Christmas. So far I get no answers to my request and no quote on the cost.