zarathustra
Because the Chron says I'm a
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« Reply #480 on: August 13, 2009, 06:01:51 PM » |
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VDM is a respectable German publishing house, member of Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. We attach great importance to the fact that our titles are orderable from all booksellers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.We publish about 10 000 books annually, mainly in economics and social sciences and are therefore one of the leading academic publishing houses in Germany. VDM Verlag is an associate member of the American Booksellers' Association ( www.bookweb.org) and the Booksellers' Association ( www.booksellers.org.uk) of the UK and Ireland. We publish books in the form of a monograph, which means that our books are independent scientifc publications (and not journal articles). If you simply compare our publishing house program on www.amazon.com(go to All books, then Advanced search, then to Publisher and enter the publisher’s name) with the program of other publishers: The extent, representation, quality, deliverability, reviews etc. all speak for themselves. Blah blah blah... |
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« Reply #481 on: August 13, 2009, 08:24:32 PM » |
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re: Quality: Sorry, but I bought one of your "books" off Amazon. What a ripoff, first of all, to charge that kind of money for a paperback booklet that was not even 50 pages. I wouldn't have passed it at an undergraduate level. It was full of spelling and grammatical errors: how is that "quality"? As for "reviews", show me some books with more than 4 or 5 reviews on Amazon.com from VDM! The most any I could find had 2, and these are most likely the author and their mother. You also say "VDM Verlag is an associate member of the American Booksellers' Association ( www.bookweb.org) and the Booksellers' Association ( www.booksellers.org.uk) of the UK and Ireland." Um, so what? I could be a member by paying their fee, too! It's not like it's prestigious to belong to these associations! "We publish books in the form of a monograph, which means that our books are independent scientifc publications (and not journal articles)." So what? They're not peer reviewed, which makes them about as valuable in the academic world as my blog. |
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« Reply #482 on: August 13, 2009, 11:20:17 PM » |
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You know what? I don't care about the "quality" of your books. You have never published a book in my field (yes, I've checked your list), so I have no reason to buy one.
My complaint with your company is the agressive pursual of authors, which, as I have stated upthread and in emails to your company, is harrassment. Other publishers solicited me for my dissertation, but every single other publisher stopped when I told them I had signed a contract with another press. I have to date received six emails from VDM asking for my dissertation, which HAS ALREADY BEEN PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE.
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« Reply #483 on: August 15, 2009, 09:38:33 AM » |
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VDM is a respectable German publishing house, member of Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. We attach great importance to the fact that our titles are orderable from all booksellers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.We publish about 10 000 books annually, mainly in economics and social sciences and are therefore one of the leading academic publishing houses in Germany. VDM Verlag is an associate member of the American Booksellers' Association ( www.bookweb.org) and the Booksellers' Association ( www.booksellers.org.uk) of the UK and Ireland. We publish books in the form of a monograph, which means that our books are independent scientifc publications (and not journal articles). If you simply compare our publishing house program on www.amazon.com(go to All books, then Advanced search, then to Publisher and enter the publisher’s name) with the program of other publishers: The extent, representation, quality, deliverability, reviews etc. all speak for themselves. Your Maurutian spammers are also well-represened on Facebook, and sending hundreds of emails per day to recent graduates. Perhaps instead call it the "Deutscher Volk von Facenbucherverien" and it you can add it to your list of 'reasons VDM is super duper'. |
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Jews, communists, "lesbians", feminists and marihuana addicts --Pyshnov
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svenc
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« Reply #484 on: August 15, 2009, 01:33:49 PM » |
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Dear VDM Shills (e.g., Bulscu),
Why do you keep coming back here to revise this thread out of dormancy with some pathetic, defensive post? You only get slammed each time, and the activity helps keep this thread as one of the top hits for VDM in Google.
Your best strategy really would be to stop reviving this thread.
Inviting people to do a search in Amazon that serves primarily to show how most of your books are (a) unreviewed, even in the relative free-for-all there, and (b) highly priced, low-rank items, is certainly not the coup-de-grace you seem to think it is.
Helpfully yours,
Svenc
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akela
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« Reply #485 on: August 20, 2009, 01:09:41 PM » |
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I am a subject librarian at a private R1 university, and a faculty member has just requested me to purchase his book published with VDM. It has the same title as his Ph.D. dissertation. Unfortunately, I had to refuse the request due to the questionable quality of the publisher.
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« Reply #486 on: August 20, 2009, 08:30:13 PM » |
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I am a subject librarian at a private R1 university, and a faculty member has just requested me to purchase his book published with VDM. It has the same title as his Ph.D. dissertation. Unfortunately, I had to refuse the request due to the questionable quality of the publisher.
Hehehehe ! Did you ask him why he doesn't just give you a copy of his thesis to catalog ? |
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I just hate it that I constantly have to like everyone and everything. -- moonstone
O, what a hateful feminist concoction!
Jews, communists, "lesbians", feminists and marihuana addicts --Pyshnov
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akela
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« Reply #487 on: August 21, 2009, 10:06:58 AM » |
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I am a subject librarian at a private R1 university, and a faculty member has just requested me to purchase his book published with VDM. It has the same title as his Ph.D. dissertation. Unfortunately, I had to refuse the request due to the questionable quality of the publisher.
Hehehehe ! Did you ask him why he doesn't just give you a copy of his thesis to catalog ? No, but I did point out that his dissertation was available free on DigiDiss. Now his response is: "The book has been published in monograph form and is in large part my dissertation. Your comments about the publisher are unwarranted." I am tempted to reply: "I only wish they were!" |
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« Reply #488 on: August 21, 2009, 11:54:45 AM » |
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Ask him what changes the editors suggested he make to turn it into a monograph.
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« Reply #489 on: August 21, 2009, 11:59:48 AM » |
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I am a subject librarian at a private R1 university, and a faculty member has just requested me to purchase his book published with VDM. It has the same title as his Ph.D. dissertation. Unfortunately, I had to refuse the request due to the questionable quality of the publisher.
Hehehehe ! Did you ask him why he doesn't just give you a copy of his thesis to catalog ? No, but I did point out that his dissertation was available free on DigiDiss. Now his response is: "The book has been published in monograph form and is in large part my dissertation. Your comments about the publisher are unwarranted." I am tempted to reply: "I only wish they were!" Send him a link to this thread... If he wants the library to have a copy of his Vanity Deutsch Mauritius book, why not just ask him to donate a copy? (I'm sure authors are obliged to buy a bunch of copies, so he must have a few) I'd be concerned that if he's pushing hard for you to buy it, he's putting it on his class reading list... |
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« Reply #490 on: August 24, 2009, 12:09:50 AM » |
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I'm a librarian and I would not buy that monograph for my R1 collection based on the name of the publisher. Hopefully, there are no other VDM books in the collection he can point to. I would use the excuse of the book budget-and needing to spend the money on books from other publishers. However, if we did not own this faculty member's dissertation already and he donated it free, I would probably add it. I would not spend money on it.
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« Reply #491 on: August 24, 2009, 12:22:04 AM » |
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I was beginning to feel a little left out since these lovely folks had never offered to publish anything of mine--but then I got an email from them a couple of weeks ago! And what they wanted to "publish" is my master's thesis, from way back in 2000!! Thanks to y'all, I just giggled and hit delete.
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"Once admit that the sole verifiable or fruitful object of knowledge is the particular set of changes that generate the object of study...and no intelligible question can be asked about what, by assumption, lies outside." John Dewey
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francie_
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« Reply #492 on: September 04, 2009, 12:41:20 PM » |
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Thanks for this thread! I just received a solicitation from VDM. Like Ms. Particularity, I felt rather flattered, but I am a skeptic at heart. I knew my wise forumite colleagues would be able to enlighten me on the nature of this publisher.
Sorry, "Acquisition Editor". Pass.
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Oh realfrancie, so clever!
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« Reply #493 on: September 04, 2009, 01:34:48 PM » |
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A family member has just announced that she has agreed to publish her thesis with VDM. It's a done deal, so I've tried to be enthusiastic about it, to be nice, but I feel awkward.
What would you do if you were in my shoes?
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svenc
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« Reply #494 on: September 04, 2009, 01:39:05 PM » |
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Point her here.
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