List of real publishing companies?

People say you shouldn't have to pay for publishing, and that those aren't REAL publishing companies, they're just scams. What is an example of a REAL publishing company?List of real publishing companies?
Go to your nearest large bookshop (assuming they haven't all closed down...), go to whichever section you see your book as belonging in, and make a note of who published, say, 20 of the most recent books there.



Alternatively, most countries have a book, updated annually, that lists all the REAL publishing companies who do business in that country. It's usually called Writers' Market or something similar. Your library or bookshop will have it.



The reason you shouldn't pay to have your book printed is that there are far more people who think they deserve to be paid for writing than actually deserve to. Only about 1 in 100 of the people who try to get published by a publisher who doesn't expect the author to pay them succeed. Because scammers expect the author to pay, it's not in their interest to refuse to publish anybody. Because of that 1 in 100 thing, almost all the books that they print are bad. Anybody who runs a bookshop or writes reviews of books knows that, and almost always takes the view that it's not worth digging through the mountains of crap to find the occasional good one.List of real publishing companies?
An example of a 'real' publishing company is Bloomsbury publishing. Paying for publishing is known as vanity publishing. A 'real' publishing company usually requires you to get an agent to publish your novel or poems. Not always, but the majority of the time, an agent is required. Never pay to publish your book: if you're asked for money, then it's definitely a scam. Publishing houses and agents make their money from the sales of your book.List of real publishing companies?
A 'real' publishing company is one who selects the finest manuscripts submitted, pays the author, prints the books and promotes them nationwide or even worldwide. A vanity publisher or self-publishing company prints books for a fee - so anyone can publish anything, but it costs money - and doesn't promote the books - so they don't get into the mainstream and very rarely get onto bookshop shelves.

Buy a copy of Writer's Market to find contact details of publishers, or subscribe to their website: http://www.writersmarket.com/LearnMore.a鈥?/a>
so you know nothing about the market press books index from dana press?

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