Presented without comment, straight out of the anti-vaccination movement...

[Suu]

http://www.amazon.com/Melanies-Marvelous-Measles-Stephanie-Messenger/dp/1466938897

Melanie's Marvelous Measles!!!

Melanie's Marvelous Measles is a book written by Stephanie Messenger who has devoted her life to educating people about vaccines and natural health choices. This book takes children on a journey to learn about vaccinations for childhood illnesses, like measles and chicken pox.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Billy's Amazing Smallpox!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Read the comments.

People are not as dumb as I often think.

[Junkenstein]

Billy's Amazing Smallpox!

Timmy's terrific Typhus!

Christopher's adventures with Cholera!

My urge to write kids books is returning.

Please don't buy this book.
Amazon Customer

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Read the comments.

People are not as dumb as I often think.

Most people really aren't.

Unfortunately, the "Natural health" cult has quite a few members, though.

[hooplala]

Who the fuck published that piece of shit?

[Suu]

I still have great faith that the majority of the world are all about vaccinations, because the majority of us wouldn't BE HERE if it wasn't for our parents and grandparents getting vaccinated. My father had polio, I've seen what that shit does to the body, NO. DO NOT WANT.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Who the fuck published that piece of shit?

I only glanced at it, but I assumed it's self-published, because who WOULD publish that?

[Suu]

Trafford Publishing, an expensive self-publisher.

http://www.trafford.com/

[Junkenstein]

That website is fucking hilarious.

http://www.trafford.com/GoldSeal.aspx

The Trafford Publishing Gold Seal of Literary Excellence
More and more self-published titles get released every year, and with it, the industry's demand for high-quality published works grows. It's now quite normal to hear of traditional publishing houses and movie producers scrutinizing scores of published titles for their next big hit.

This is where Trafford's self-published authors get a leg up against the competition – because Trafford has always been committed to launching the finest possible first edition of your book when it set out to establish the gold standard for publishing.

Setting the Standard for Publishing
The chance to reach the peak of literary excellence is yours, as Trafford offers you the valuable opportunity to gain premium credibility to shore up your book's marketing campaign with the Gold Seal Premium –a service that allows your book to be critiqued to earn the distinguished Gold Seal of Literary Excellence.

Works with a positive review will receive our Gold Seal of Literary Excellence. The published books' covers are branded with a Gold Seal stamp, distinguishing it from the work of any other self publisher or publishing company. Your cover will also feature your reviewer's critique, as it would appear on the cover of any bestselling novel.

Purchase the Gold Seal Premium and your manuscript will be submitted by Trafford to one of the most respected and professional reviewers in the publishing industry, the US Review of Books.

It's highly tempting to set up a company doing exactly this, right now. The whole thing is a fucking joke:

http://www.trafford.com/Servicestore/SocialMediaSetupGuide.aspx

When it comes to building an online presence as an author, it can be hard to know where to begin. One of the easiest and more effective ways to establish yourself online is to join free social networking and blogging sites that will allow you to interact directly with other online users.

To help you jumpstart your activity on popular social platforms, we've created a comprehensive PDF guide that will walk you through the basics of how to set up and manage profiles on Facebook, Twitter, WordPress and LinkedIn. This step-by-step guide will take you through the technical aspects of signing up with each platform and show you how to use these online tools to share content and engage with readers and professionals.

Your Social Media Setup Guide will introduce you to the basics of the following platforms:

WordPress — a popular blogging platform you can use to create your own free blog and share longer form content with readers
Facebook — a social networking service where you can upload photos, create events and keep in touch with friends, family, followers and fans
Twitter — a micro-blogging social media site that allows you to engage with other users in short status updates of 140 characters or fewer
LinkedIn — an online network for professionals looking to exchange knowledge, ideas and opportunities with others in their field

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If you need a comprehensive guide to set up a fucking facebook account, whatever you have written probably holds little to no value.

Don't take my word for it, read between the lines of a few of the testimonials:
http://www.trafford.com/WhyTrafford/AuthorTestimonials.aspx

Obviously, don't look at the bookstore and their stable of authors in any detail. No funny there. In fact, its when you start throwing a few google searches on the authors/bestsellers/"gold club" it becomes rather sad and apparent that the thing is basically scam with nice clothes. Not that you'd expect such things out of the self publishing industry. No incentives here to lie through your teeth to authors.