Lap thesis publishing

In reality, LAP presses authors to buy expensive copies of their own book! Not only do these authors risk being out-of-pocket, but they also risk damaging their reputation by publishing with LAP. There’s a site - Writers Beware which has details of the many publishing firms which have the aim of fleecing the author rather than selling books.

Lambert Academic Publishing is a scam. Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) is a company that spams scholars who have published theses offering to republish them as books. Lambert Academic Publishing is an example of a predatory publisher that frequently contact researchers and students. Sterne described the way they do business as follows:

LAP create a front cover using stock art and place the "book" online (on their own site and sister sites, and on Amazon) for sale at high prices with no indication that this work is an unedited thesis. The only sales will be to unwary libraries or hobbyists, but the author never sees a penny of those sales.

Publishing a thesis this way has no academic value whatsoever. (I.e., it will lead to no prestige, respectability, credit, etc. For academic purposes, it will not count as a published book, except for interfering with other forms of publication.)