Saturday, May 21, 2011

FOOLS SOON PARTED FROM THEIR MONEY

A few months ago Publish America ran the following offer.

"Product Description
Are you among the many authors who would love to be interviewed about their book, but get nervous just thinking about it?

We can solve that. PublishAmerica will send a professional interviewer to your home who will let you tell your story on camera. They will spend hours with you until you get it right. You can be completely relaxed, knowing that the end result will be perfect.

Your interview will be posted on on multiple well-known sites, including YouTube, Metacafe and DailyMotion, where it will be accessible to news reporters, publishing agents and Hollywood producers. We will inform 30,000 media contacts about your interview. You will also go on PublishAmerica TV!


Book your professional video interview now. Our introductory $1499 price covers everything, including our traveling to your home town. You must choose a shipping option to activate the booking. You will be contacted within 48 business hours to schedule your professional on-camera interview."

Publish America TV? Publish America TV???? What in the hell is Publish America TV? No one would pay $1,499 to have an interview re their book on a few Internet websites and appear on Publish America TV. Would they? But nine Publish America authors forked over a total of $13,491 to participate in this enterprise!

Publish America TV consists of three video clips of author interviews on the Publish America website. The nine are actually embedded in three clips so one would have to view each video to the end to not miss most of the interviews. Will these pathetic videos sell any books? Of course not!

"Your interview will be posted on on multiple well-known sites, including YouTube, Metacafe and DailyMotion, where it will be accessible to news reporters, publishing agents and Hollywood producers. We will inform 30,000 media contacts about your interview. You will also go on PublishAmerica TV!"

Smoke and mirrors. None of this will happen other than the the video clips appearing on their website and being called Publish America TV by Publish America. Where is their license to operate a TV station? Their is no such thing as Publish America TV.

I don't understand how anyone could believe these promised actions would generate a single book sale. So their motives for blowing $1,499, for nothing, is beyond my comprehension.

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