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

What they do is legal but I would not hesitate to call it a fraud. If you offer a self-published, print on demand service you can´t advertise it as “academic” publishing, because that, together with the high prices, conveys the image of a proper academic or university press with editors, distributors, correctors, external readers, etc. They don´t say explicitly that they offer those services (which is why they are legal) but they blatantly mislead buyers in Amazon with those prices and that name. There are many reviews of customers who thought that they were butying a proper academic book or manual only to get a printout of someone´s undergraduate dissertation. It´s legal, but it is still fooling people.