Dorrance Publishing Company, Inc. is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based self-publishing company. The company publishes both traditional printed books as well as ebooks.
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History
The company's website reports that they were founded by Gordon Dorrance in 1920. The Catalogue of Copyright Entries for that year lists "Dorrance & company, inc." publishing works The Pocket Chesterfield and Broken Shackles. Dorrance set up the company after a work he was editing did not complete publication with Scribners.
They have been accredited by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) since 1995. The BBB lists them as having started in June 1989, and also operating under the alternate business names I-Proclaim Books, Red Lead Press, Rose Dog Books, and Whitmore Publishing Company.
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Services
Dorrance Publishing is a vanity book printer that offers book production, promotion, distribution, and ghostwriting services.
After publication, authors' books are made available through the Dorrance Publishing bookstore, and may be sold through other large-scale book retailers, including Google Books, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
In Popular Culture
Gordon Dorrance, the founder of Dorrance Publishing, was portrayed by actor Pierre Watkin in an episode of I Love Lucy entitled "Lucy Writes A Novel."
Self-Publishing Contract and Better Business Bureau Reviews
Dorrance Publishing does not attempt to hide its charges and makes no claims of selecting clients based on potential for commercial success.
As of March 2018, Dorrance Publishing has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
Selected published works
- Navajo Code Talkers, by Doris A. Paul
- 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates Day by Day: A Special Season, an Extraordinary Postseason, by Rick Cushing, was profiled in Pittsburgh Magazine
- God's Plan for Peons, by Susan D. Criddle
- The Juggler, by Phillip D. Farrara
- Unwelcome: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Discrimination, Sexual Assault, and Rape in the Canadian Forces, by Captain Dawn Ottoman
- Hal David: His Magic Moments, by Eunice David
- No Surrender: Building a Progressive Agenda for Iowa with the Five Securities, by Jack Hatch
- New Jersey Mob: Memories of a Top Cop, by Bob Buccino
- Cooking Soup to Nuts, by Chef Becky Foulk
References
External links
- Dorrance Publishing website
- Dorrance Publishing bookstore
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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