Alphapublisher Reviews

Fraud I feel that Alpha Books Solutions is scamming Me for my money and I am caught up in a fraud

My Name is Daniel Sheppard I am the Author of Dead Reckoning Justice by Any Means Necessary In March I contracted with Alpha Books solutions Alpha Books Solutions com I contracted and paid one thousand dollars to self publish my book Dead Reckoning After exchanging e-mails with the marketing sales director Christine Anderson I submitted my completed edited manuscript and we also revised the cover to the book which I approved I was assured by Ms Anderson that my book would be printed by the end of August or no later than September however on October first I received a Docu-sign contract in which she stated that all of the preliminary work was done and Alpha was ready to print and publish the work since then I have not heard any more from Ms Anderson she does not respond to any of my e-mails nor can I get her or anyone from Alpha on the phone at the listed for Alpha books of Indianapolis Indiana Wickipedia lists Alpha as a subsidiary of Penguin Random House however Penguin disavows having no knowledge of Alpha Books

They promised to get my book published

They promised to get my book published and delivered to my door by 2 5 21 but so nothing I emailed and tried to get hold of my rep Barry but no avail As if its all ghost I have sent them couple emails and not responds or updates from them Its now 2 23 21 I feel like I m been scammed

Alpha is impossible to communicate

My softcover book was published on 7 30 21 In September the hardcover came but the front cover was printed off-centered and wrong paper Since then 3 hardcover sample came but all of their front cover were off-centerd and wrong paper and printed blurred By this time it was December None of them was acceptable Finally the last decent not perfect but I accepted sample came on 2 13 22 I was told I should receive my authores books in one moneth March But I still don t receive my author s books yet 6 1 22 today even though Barnes and Noble sell them on line I bought it for a trial it came in 5 days It was correct one so it is there It has been10 months since I have been waiting for my hardcover It has been a nightmare since last August My first rep did not answer my email often and disappeared 2 weeks at a time and quit At the New year a new rep came and soon quit I don t have a rep now My readers received an unapproved bad hardcover copies which Alpha promised they will exchange to the right one but it is not done yet Each time I emailed Alpha the answer is currently response time is 5 to 7 business days but even after 10 business days nobody answers Also I notified that the Alpha s bookstore on their website does not functioning right for the shipping cost Shipping for U S and Europe both shows 49 95 Nothing is done I feel like I am being harassed

Major Scam

Major Scam We signed on with them mid summer of 2022 we were promised to be the exclusive provider of our services listed in the magazine They sent us the first run of the magazine and all was running well then we got a call from the salesman who onboarded us trying to sell us a spot as an exclusive service provider I had to remind him we were already in there and that it is very concerning that they are still soliciting this spot that we had taken So we call the main office speak to a gentleman named Sam who apologized for the salesmen s mistake we wanted reassurance that we weren t just scammed so he said they rewrite articles to keep the issues fresh and that they will send us the new ones they make for proof that we were the only ones in there Nothing ever came not even another version of a different neighborhood we were apart of which should have been very easy to send to us Called back to see see why we didnt get those Sam then claims he never tells people they update the magazines I reminded him that s what he said and how dumb it would be to send the same magazine over and over anyway with the same articles he then backtracks and says well we change the articles but not the ads and I asked why those werent sent he gives an excuse that actually our neighborhoods did not have any article updates so there was no need to send a different version to us What a terrible magazine to send monthly issues with no changes Never got a single phone call from it waste of money time and your patience cause they know they are scamming small businesses

Bad Publisher to publish your bookwith forget those-4-5-stars

I submitted and published in with this publisher in November 2020 and paid for a plan The agent published the book without using the plan for editing or an editor and it dafamated the potential of the book The book is called The Truth the Great Deceiver which is a great book of religion but the publisher produced an unedited version and I paid for advertising on TV which they denied promoting and stated they would refund a partial payment I have been waiting for almost a year and in 2 years trying to reach them and requesting a phone call I have not received one as of today of this review I have to find another publisher and I paid close to 2000 for publishing and they offered me less than 500 for a refund Not to mention the send you a excel spreadsheet of your royalties which they will not prove that it is correct Its their word against yours through a spreadsheet and Amozon and Barnes Noble have a disclosure with them not to reveal any purchases Tried to contact them today about my refund and now my page is blocked and NOW you have to pay a fee to have them call you right away

Don t Trust This Company to Write a Comic Book

This is an EXTREMELY UNprofessional company Arrangements were made for me a ghostwriter to attend a Zoom meeting and then I was the only person who showed up It was a waste of my valuable time Time is MONEY UPDATE The UNprofessionalism did not stop there either After reading my review this JOKE of a publishing company had the audacity to confront me about how it fights fake reviews as if I would have the time to sit down and write a fake review about how UNprofessional they are and how shabbily they treated me last month I barely have time to sit here and write this update I am not new to business I know how it is supposed to be conducted You don t waste people s time YOU SHOW UP You CERTAINLY don t threaten a person who is well-versed in the law of libel with a lawsuit either

The worst company I ve ever worked

The worst company I ve ever worked with After 12 months and 8 attempts of editing they failed to deliver a mistake free copy The books they promised me haven t been delivered after 51 days I m still waiting They also sent me an email stating there is no money in the budget for marketing even though the plan I purchased includes marketing Terrible experience and extremely frustrating

Not happy at all

These people are amateurs not professionals They do shoddy work and create plenty of formatting errors which they dont even correct Everytime i ask them to do something its like a 5 year old has done it The numbers on my table of contents don t line up they allow the text to go over images and borders some words don t line up with others - they dont look at anything that they are doing I have had to point out multiple formatting errors and even when i point them out they still dont fix them This is not a professional company its a waste of time and money to ask for their help i paid them YET im fixing and formatting my own book MYSELF What was the point of paying these people when they cant even fulfill simple actions Its like im dealing with people with only a few brain cells BEWARE this is not a professional publishing company