Exposing the Hidden Secrets Behind Prime Publishing Press, Prime Publishing Lab, and Global Ink House – What Robert Taft Discovered Will Shock You

My experience with Prime Publishing Press (PPP) and its alleged parent company, Global Ink House (GIH), had many of the scam tricks that authors should note in their search for legitimate publishers.

The tricks are listed below so authors have a clear picture of what a fraudulent company can do to them.

1. According to some officials of PPP, they are a DBA (Doing Business As) of their parent (GIH).
2. PPP officials claim that Betty J. Rodrigues is the owner of GIH registered in Ohio and the founder of PPP. But the official owner of GIH is Romine A. Betty.
3. According to another PPP official, the parent company is Cambridge Publishing House (CPH). Benjamin Rosenburg claims to be the Vice President of PPP, but has an email address at Cambridge, which he claims is the parent company of PPP. When asked to send a picture of their physical New York City facility, he sent a picture of a building nowhere close to the physical address on the PPP’s website.
4. PPP’s physical address is supposedly the Nordstrom Building at 251 W. 58^th Street, but they refuse to give the floor or suite numbers. The alleged address for Cambridge is the same as the New York Hilton.
5. All officials claim that PPP and Cambridge are registered in New York City. But neither are registered in either the city or the state.
6. Ethan Gallagher, alleged president of PPP, has no contact information, and certified letters to him at the PPP address were returned undeliverable. PPP claims that their director is Ariel John, but they also do not disclose his phone number.
7. PPP drew me in with very inexpensive publishing – about $500. They read my manuscript, praised it, and claimed it could sell upwards of 40,000 copies.
8. They then presented me with a contract that claimed PPP would pay me $20,000 after a term of 120 to 150 days, even if no books are sold. All I had to do was agree to print 2,000 copies of the book upfront for $3 a piece, or $6,000. Before they presented me with a contract, they claimed to have a commitment from book distributors to sell the book to various bookstores. With this commitment, they claimed to be assured of the sales and that PPP had reserved shelf space in selected bookstores.
9. PPP then presented me with a bogus listing on the Amazon top 100 bestsellers list, but when Amazon posted my sales, I had only earned a paltry $13 dollars.
10. The company never proved that the books I paid for were actually printed. But at the end of the contract term, they claimed the sales had been made. PPP then insisted I pay a capital gains tax of $3,500 to the company (not to the IRS) prior to receiving funds owed to me under contract. This provision was never stated in the contract, and violates IRS regulations.
11. Rodrigues and Messrs. John, Reed and Betty refused to comment on this article, suggesting that GIH management condones their DBA’s financial system.

I had four contracts with this company totaling $80,000. I paid over $30,000 to PPP and did not receive a penny promised to me under contract.

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