Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by ukthesis

So far as I can determine from these posts, the problems with having VDM publish a dissertation or thesis mostly kick in if you want to be a lecturer, or if you have any plans to try to publish the work through other means. I don’t really see a problem if you don’t intend to use your work in a career context and will have absolutely no plans to have it published by a more respected publishing house. If you do want it published by a respected academic publisher, remember that it’s by no means plain sailing. I had to submit my manuscript to over 15 different publishers before one accepted it. So the idea that one can go off and easily get the work published elsewhere is usually wrong headed. Self-publishing, another option, is quite expensive since you have to pay for it to be done, whereas VDM does the whole thing for free. Those seem to be the main issues.