{"id":228752,"date":"2025-10-21T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228752\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:54:05","slug":"melbourne-books-warns-writers-about-imposter-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228752\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Books warns writers about imposter publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tTuesday, 21 October 2025 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tA vanity publisher is trying to convince authors that it is Melbourne Books, but the real publisher is fighting back. Books+Publishing\u2019s Andrew Wrathall has taken a closer look at the scam, and his investigation led him to another dubious site purporting to be an Australian publisher. Melbourne Books has alerted&#8230; \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 21 October 2025 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing A vanity publisher is trying to convince authors that it is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[77,64,63,11192,11195,11189,3952,457,11194,3331,134,11191,1736,11193,11190],"class_list":["post-228752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ebooks","tag-entertainment","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}