Dear Everybody,
I published a book with LAP about 2 years ago. During the publishing process, I was given all the fine prints of the deal and I understood what I was doing. My main aim was to have my book on my shelf and I got it. Meanwhile, they sold some copies too and gave me book-buying credit for it (since my royalty did not cross the payment threshold).
Sine the book is my thesis, I had already published 3 papers in good journals out of my work; I am sure you all understand that journals papers do not come straight out of thesis, they have to be changed a lot to get published.
So I would say, LAP helped me by saving the money I would have otherwise spent on publishing my own book (vanity publishing??), put me right over the internet (amazon, Barnes etc) and gave me buying credit.
I have no complaints! I suggest if your thesis/academic work is good, you should publish papers out of it (in a journal language) and then consider the appropriate publisher to publish the book form. If you don’t know how a book is different from a journal paper (srly???). And if your work is too good, I am sure you have world’s top publishers ringing your door bell already!
Cheers!
