Adams Press is not a vanity press. Vanity, or subsidy, publishers make extravagant claims to authors, saying they will market and distribute their books to wholesale and retail outlets. Often they state that they will provide widespread advertising and sales assistance. Some even promise they will print far more books than they actually do.
The truth is that they put little effort into the books they publish after they are printed. Authors are advised to read contracts from vanity presses very carefully and to check with an attorney, the Better Business Bureau, and regulatory agencies before signing any agreement with these firms.
Do we want to retool the second graf a bit so it doesn’t seem to imply that we put a LOT of effort into the books we publish after they’re printed? I don’t want to play down our availability to authors after the project is over, but this kind of implies (maybe secondarily or tertiarily) that we put a lot of effort into the books after they’re finished, which we don’t really offer.