If you read my mail, I say that because of the high price of these VDM books, there are unlikely to be any substantial sales. I think that some libraries or archives might take some, in part because they get a discount. I am not going myself with VDM since I hope that at some future time I “might” be able to interest a mainstream publisher. However, so far as I know, VDM are NOT frausters, as you claim. They have been investigated, have been active for quite some time in different countries and they operate legally – fraudsters do not. They actually offer a legal service. See the Wikipedia entry on their operations. (By the same token, most books published by academic presses don’t sell many copies of their books either, and I should know, but that doesn’t make them a scam either.) What IS true is that you need to research them and know the issues before you get involved, and VDM won’t tell you the downsides, for obvious commercial reasons. So if you get involved, make sure you know the alternatives, that’s the best advice.
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