United-pc.eu

by Melinda Tung
25th August 2016

Morning all,

Have anyone heard of United-pc.eu or used them before?

Any comments and advice are very much appreciated.

Many thanks.

Kind regards,

Melinda

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Hi all,
Currently I had a lot of time (due to the situation around Covid-19 and lockdowns), so I finally made my childhood dream come true and wrote my first Book. I am still a bloody beginner in this field, especially when it comes to publishing and marketing. It is such a big question to me how I can get people read my stories…

I know that this discussion is quite old, but during my research for publishing my book I came across United-pc.eu and found this discussion. It is still true, that they only take manuscripts, which have been recommended before and furthermore they say that at the moment they don’t take any manuscripts at all. Here you also mentioned Novum Publishing as part of United-pc, so I had a look at their site as well and it actually looks quite interesting to me.

I do know that I have to pay for all the services included in publishing my manuscript with that publisher, but I am just a beginner in this and it seems like a very good chance to get a professional proofreading, editing and in general a feedback on my work from someone who has a lot of experience and know how. There are quite interesting packages for printing and publishing which also can include marketing tools for example. It has always been a big question to me how beginning authors can actually print and sell their work. That’s also why I actually never really started writing a whole book myself. But it has been a dream for so long and now I have this finished manuscript and finally decided to take the next step.

I registered here to get a little insight into this whole market and field of writing and publishing and already read a bit of quite helpful things. So now I would be very happy to hear your experiences with Novum or recommendations for any other comparable publisher? Thanks a lot for your help!

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Thanks all,

I was blessed to discover Writers and Artists, where we can all share valuable information. I was tempted to hand over my cash. After knowing they are vanity publishers, I stay away from them and advise anyone to do the same.

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https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Non-compliant-online-advertisers/Novum-Publishing-gmbh-trading-as-United-PC-Publisher-295034.aspx#.V8K-WzU6AoQ

This from the Advertising Standards Agency in 2015.

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