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Trafford Publishing


Country United States
State Indiana
City Bloomington
Address 1663 Liberty Drive
Phone 1.888.232.4444.
Website http://www.trafford.com/

Trafford Publishing Reviews

  • Sep 18, 2023

On September 8, I purchased a publishing package from Trafford Publishing co. and was told that a person from production would contact me by email by Monday of the following week. A week and a half went by before I called Eve and she returned my call (these people do not answer their phones) and apologized for not getting back to me.

She sent me the email with a document to be submitted with my manuscript. I went through the document and decided that due to the lack of response and the details requested for publishing that I did not want to work with this company as it was clear that I would pay the money and do most of the work.

I immediately requested a refund and now have been subjected to an ongoing runaround where people do not answer their phone or emails. The consultant who is supposed to make the decision called me back once and I missed the call, he could have and should have simply answered by two emails.

This company has done no work on my behalf, because I have not sent my manuscript, therefore, there is no reason to not send my refund.

  • May 22, 2018

Trafford publishing stole millions of dollars from my book, secret societies exposed, by Charles Del Campo. Like everyone else in this site, we all have been scamed and defrauded by these group of organized crime syndicate that are above the law and no one can stop them, not even the FBI or the General State Attorneys Office. My book was actually compared to another Best Seller and Im the one who promoted it on CNN International.

I sold over 1,000,000, thats one Million Books withing a week throught out Europe. The price was $35 dollars per book, so just do the math? just how much did Trafford paid me in royalties? ....$2.00 dollars! (two dollars) Thats right and then they called me for years to sell me my own book for $10. dollars. I stoped production since they were giving my book freely away to Amazon and Ebay and I never good any money from them either!

Till this day, I call them and ask to speak to someone in charge, a supervisor, manager, owner, president and they always refuse and hang up the phone on me! Its been years since I been fighting them and by the looks of it, there are hundreds and thousands of victims nationwide.

we need a class action law suit as these malefic people are profiting in the millions and misrepresenting their publishing contract. They charged me $4,500 for publishing 10 books which I got, and claimed that they will be doing marketing...

Im still waiting for that! Lets unite and get a bad a** attorney and report these criminal emterprise to Washington DC. since they operate through the Internet it becomes part of the FBI investigation. We mut really promote more Blogs and Social media outlets about these criminal outfit in order to prevent more victims out there!

  • Dec 16, 2017

My name is Diaz Coleman. I seleected Trafford to publish a book titled The Children of Nataar in 2012. Since that time, I've researched and found that Trafford has been selling my book, but not giving me the royalties that I;ve made off of the book. In the last two years I have received three checks. None of them were over three dollars each. When I promote my book, and tell people it can be bought on Barnes and Noble website, the book is sold out. I wold like to know what happened to the royalties that I should be receiving from my book entitled The Children of Nataar.

  • Dec 21, 2015

In 1991 out of desperation I wrote an autobiography entitled, Ex-Inmate In Exile. This book was not about any encounters I had had with the prison system but, rather, the mental health system. I wrote it out of desperation for what was then the previous 20 years of my life as a mental patient. Initially, I self-published it at a vanity press here in Baltimore. Then, six years later, I republished the book with Trafford Publishing.

At that time, Trafford was located in Canada where it had been founded. Back then, it was also a thoroughly reputable business. Alas, it did not survive, and was sold off to a U.S. gang of crooks who ferried it off to Indiana, where it has been ever since. Trafford is now owned by a larger company known as Author Solutions. A.S., in turn, is owned by Penguin Books, which is owned by Random House. There, you have the hierarchy of ownership. After disposing of the copies of my book which I took delivery of from the first subsidy press I went to, I decided to sign with Trafford in order to be able to sell to a wider audience than just here in Baltimore. My feeling is that my life had already been full enough with tragedy so that I didn't need Trafford to add any insult to injury at this late stage, by stealing my royalties and by not updating me as to numbers of copies sold. I couldn't give less of a flying f**k if Trafford sues me for what I am revealing about them here.

When I published in Baltimore, I took delivery of 1,000 copies which I peddled in bars and restaurants. As I sold more and more copies, the book acquired more and more local notoriety, and it became easier to sell still more copies. Also during this time, a friendly college professor decided to make the book required reading for his students in Psychology class, and did so for a period of 13 consecutive years. Thus when I then signed with Trafford, I did so with the hope that the book had already acquired enough recognition that it would not be necessary for me to spend huge sums of money on advertising for it. I spent the next 16 years waiting for a hoped-for s****.>

In July of 2015, I decided to spend some money on advertising afterall. I had a digital ad for the book designed for me which I then emailed to the Village Voice in New York. After I payed them the sum of money they asked for, VV then ran the ad four times that month in the hardcopy versions of their weekly publication. In their online version, they first linked the ad to the Amazon.com page which had been created for the book quite some time ago. They then ran the ad four different times in this online version. At the end of the month, VV informed me that there had been a total of 221 clickthroughs onto Amazon. Out of that number, it seemed to me I should have received at least a handful of actual sales. However, such as is perpetually the case with Trafford, there has been no indication of sales in my royalty account whatsoever, and I have received no payment.

In May of 2014, I learned that a class action lawsuit against Trafford had been brought by a magnanimous law firm in New York. This lawsuit alleged that Trafford was promoting fraudulent sales packages to its authors, designed supposedly to enhance sales of their books. The suit also alleged theft of authors' royalties, and I subsequently put all my hope into a successful resolution of this lawsuit as a means of resolving the trouble I was having with Trafford. Sadly, in September of 2015, I learned that the lawsuit had failed.

My worst fear is that Trafford is actually selling more and more copies of my book without paying me and without informing me of the numbers of copies sold. I have toyed with the idea of writing Trafford a notarized letter, in which I make it abundantly clear that I wish them to cease publication of the book. I would then send this letter to them by certified mail. But I'm also afraid they would ignore that letter, and continue publication illegally.

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