Dear GirlPostdoc,
Sometimes ago you were contacted by my colleague, who offer you the possibility to publish your thesis/dissertation in the form of a printed book.
He asked for your permission to send you further information about our services and the publication process.
Unfortunately, he has not received a feedback from you after sending out an e-mail with the detailed information.
I was just wondering whether his email got lost or if you took it as an unsolicited email and deleted it. LAP takes pride in publishing academic books in a wide variety of topics. Specialist books are usually no best-sellers, but our business concept allows us to publish academic works (or any other works) in a variety of niche topics, that is why we contacted you as well.
Perhaps more importantly, having a book published is a major professional asset to the author. More often than not, it can open up career opportunities and lead to new contacts and/or invitations to lectures or conferences.
It would be highly appreciated if you could confirm or disclaim your further interest in publishing your book project with us.
Looking forward to hearing back from you at your earliest convenience.
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Kevin Woodmann
Acquisition Editor
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG
I don't believe it for a second. But then I read this. What do you people think? Anyone else had this weird email? Suggestions as to what I should do?
8 comments:
It's probably not a scam, rather a pay-to-publish scheme. They don't have to invest in finding the content or in marketing the book, they just SPAM everyone who published a thesis, then charge you a fee and publish your thesis. But anyone could publish your thesis. YOU could publish your own thesis using a variety of self-publishing mechanisms, and have it listed on Amazon with minimal investment. Many of these work as print-on-demand, so there's no upfront investment.
Thanks Namnezia. Ah yes of course. My supervisor also agrees. I will go with my first instinct and ignore this spam.
If not a scam in the legal sense certainly a waste of time, and they overstate the professional assets. There really can't be that great of assets if they mass email offers out.
I got this email today, too (on my facebook account!). Ditto what Namnezia said.
I've gotten this too and investigated on the internets. If I remember correctly, it's a German company - and in Germany, you are required to publish your Ph.D. thesis in order to officially finish (I think that's what I read, anyway). So now they're trying to make more money by expanding to the US and other countries. So it's real, but it won't do you any good.
Yeah, I got these when I finished as well. Seems legit, but then again, everything presented in my thesis is published, so what's the point? Furthermore, given that there are elements of my thesis that are taken from papers I've published (e.g., figures), that creates a sticky situation in terms of rights. You may not be allowed to sign off on publishing that sort of stuff without the journal's permission. In all honesty, who wants to read a thesis anyways? ;-)
It is real...but it's spam. Lots of people I know have recieved this email as have I. I just deleted it. It's just a German publishing company who wants to publish your thesis. Superficially it looks like a credible academic publishing company but it doesn't actually have any peer review boards and it doesn't provide editors so that you can work up your thesis for publication.
Yup, I got this too. I didn't even investigate, just deleted :)
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