America Star Books

America Star Books, formerly PublishAmerica, is a Maryland-based print-on-demand book publisher founded in 1999 by Lawrence Alvin "Larry" Clopper III and Willem Meiners. Some writers and authors' advocates have accused the company of being a vanity press while representing itself as a "traditional publisher".[1][2] It changed its name in 2014, and since 2017 it has stopped accepting new authors.

PublishAtlantica was an imprint of PublishAmerica. PublishAtlantica was headquartered in the UK in Milton Keynes. It was formerly PublishBritannica before a lawsuit from Encyclopædia Britannica. PublishIcelandica was another imprint of PublishAmerica. According to a letter from PublishAmerica in 2006, neither imprint is active.[3]

  1. ^ Italie, Hillel (January 22, 2005). "Critics and supporters debate success of fast-rising PublishAmerica". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved August 28, 2007.
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  3. ^ "Book Publisher and Distributor Listings - PublishAmerica - PublishIcelandica". Preditors and Editors. Petersburg, Virginia. January 2, 2010. Archived from the original on January 13, 2010. Retrieved January 11, 2010.