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Q&A How to identify whether a publisher is genuine or not?

Despite an identical title: This question is in no means duplicate of this question. In my local area, there have been various ads running on social media that invite novice writers to contribute ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T13:00:52Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/48155
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Karan Desai‭ · 2019-12-08T13:00:52Z (almost 5 years ago)
Despite an identical title: This question is in no means duplicate of [this](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/14660/how-to-correctly-identify-publisher?rq=1) question.

In my local area, there have been various ads running on social media that invite novice writers to contribute their original writings for their upcoming anthologies, books, and novellas that will be published both as e-book and as paperback. In return, the writers would get the e-certificate. Each submission is to be done with some x Rupees to them.

I checked out their social media pages and I found that these publishers are kinda startups in this field, I could see their address, contact number, as well as photograph of the team working their on their pages. These all look genuine to me. So I am confused, what parameters does a writer have to keep in mind to identify if a publisher is genuine, and not fake?

Follow up [question #2](https://writing.stackexchange.com/q/48156/22084)

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-09-24T05:32:01Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 24