I also received an unsolicited email from Lambert Academic Publishing, an imprint of VDM. The thesis I completed in 2003 and I have no plans to follow up on the researches I did then. I am now doing researches that only marginally involve the researches related to the Ph.D. I was then doing, and in which Lambert is interested. I definitely don’t plan an academic career and I had no plans to try to get the Ph.D. published anyhow.
So I’m still unclear from the above posts as to why I should not accept the Lambert offer. I don’t believe it costs me anything unless there’s something they are not telling me. I didn’t plan to use the Ph.D. for anything and it would be nice to see it in print, even if few copies are sold. I do hope to include the Ph.D. on a CV I will write when I approach publishers for the work I am presently doing, but that’s about the only connection I can see. In this situation, what’s the problem?
