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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Distribution | United Kingdom,Republic of Ireland,United States,Australia,New Zealand,Canada |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
Austin Macauley Publishers Limited is a Britishvanity press with offices inLondon,New York andSharjah. The company was founded in 2006 and publishes fiction and non-fiction books in English and Arabic languages. The company has been accused of being a vanity press by theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
The company operates what it calls a 'hybrid' publishing model, claiming to offer some 'non-contributory', or traditional publishing contracts, and some 'partnership agreement' contracts, in which the author pays a part of the publication cost.[1] According toScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFFWA), the publisher is a vanity press which as of 2019 typically required fees of £1,275 to £7,700 from writers.[2][3] In 2019, theWriter Beware blog (sponsored by SFFWA) reported that Austin Macauley was the vanity publisher which was the subject of the "most reports and questions", noting that the vast majority of deals involve the authors paying the company to have their book published.[4] It was also discussed in a report by theWriters Guild of Great Britain and theSociety of Authors, in which it was criticised for a lack of transparency regarding the cost to authors of publishing with the company.[5]
Notable authors published by the company have included:
Associated withIndependent Publishers Guild (IPG)[18] Austin Macauley Publishers is a member ofThe Publishers Association.[19]