The vanity publisher, like a subsidy publisher, requires the author to pay all the costs of producing and marketing a book. The vanity publisher will provide the International Standard Book Number (ISBN), the Library of Congress (CIP) registration, and the copyright registration. The vanity publisher will "market" the book and do order fulfillment.

Because many vanity publisher’s have a reputation for publishing any manuscript regardless of quality, bookstores, reviewers, and distributors largely disregard the vanity publishers marketing efforts.

Quill House Publishers is NOT a vanity publisher.

What is the difference between a vanity publisher and a subsidy publisher? As a subsidy publisher we make a judgment on the publishing potential of your book. We will put the Quill House imprint only on a book which we believe has viability and integrity in the marketplace.

Just because an author has a manuscript and money does not mean that we will publish his/her work. If the author wishes to proceed with publication of a manuscript we have judged as not meeting our publishing goals, we will assist the author in self-publishing the book.