Trafford Publishing
Reviews and Complaints

I received the following email on in February 2023:

Dear Tony Cammarata,

Good day!

In order to transfer the rights and royalties of Mr. Jacob Cammarata’s book to a new beneficiary, we will require the following forms.

1. Reassignment of Rights form (attached)

2. Tax Form of the new owner - A completed W-9 (for US citizens) or W8BEN (for Non-US citizens)

3. In lieu of the contract owner’s signature, we will need a photocopy of the Death Certificate and the Will or Power of Attorney.

All documents need to be mailed to:

Trafford

Attention Royalties

1663 Liberty Drive

Bloomington, IN 47403

Should you have any other concerns, never hesitate to contact us by dialing our toll free number: [protected] or by sending us an e-mail at our customer support mailbox: [protected]@trafford.com

Sincerely,

Charmaine Bolton

customer support representative

Author Solutions

1663 Liberty Drive

Bloomington, IN 47403

P: [protected]

[protected]@trafford.com

I sent the required documents (see attachments) shortly after this email was received and have not yet had a response from Trafford regarding the transfer of ownership of the royalties.

My book was published in 2003 and I have never seen a Penney v they have stolen everything from me and then some. They have made illegal contracts with many be vendors without my consent and then they sold the book all over the world for 20 yrs and didn't pay me a cent. Talking about google a Amazon Barnes and noble WalMart many more. Huge companies that have billions. Why would they want to do this to me. Scam me out of my share which would be nothing compared to the money they have. I can't figure it out for the life of me. This goes beyond principle decency any thing you want to say about it. I'm beyond words or phrases I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm so far out of my league it's not even funny. All I want is my money and my book to be under my control and to sell my trilogy. My book has been copied and God knows what else literally hundreds of times. I see so many copy right cases and in pretty sure I have a solid case. I'm not a greedy scunbag I just want my book to get the credit it deserves as well as me. What has been done is way beyond right. My publisher stole my book and everyone else. Then everyone else copied the title and concepts 6i think that it's even been made into other books as well. From all the searching I've done I'm sure this is correct. With all of this I must have a pretty good book here. I will have to keep pursuing this because I owe it to myself. Need help

They have taken my book made over 30 vendor contracts without my consent. Sold it for 20 yrs not paying me a dime. Told me i never sold one book. When i found out they cancelled my print, destroyed all files and ignore my request for now, verified sales. Somehow made amazon forbid me from ever using thier site again. I have no idea why other than they know i have been a victim of copyright fraud

2003 published my book. Year after year I was told no sales. The last few years I became very suspicious as my book was selliing worldwide. The more I enquired the more angry they became. Finally when ifinally had proof of sales and demanded reporrs and royalties they just ignored me. When I threatned lawsuit they stopped publication and destrooyed all files. Please help

After weeks of conversations, I made a $575 first payment of three to republish my novel "Not Forgotten" on September 28, 2022. Afterwards I was referred to electronic link to sign which contained provisions I did not agree to or sign. So I was never provided any of the republishing services they were charging me for. About the middle of October, I asked for refund, which I've yet to receive. And now they claim $75 was non-refundable finance charge, which is ridiculous. I suggested the $75 be credit I can use for purchase of future books. I've been ignored. Meanwhile I've not yet been refunded the $499.83 not in dispute. They have questionable business practices and have not treated me very well as one of their authors. I want my entire $575 refunded.

After my book, above title, by Trafford Publishing (Canada) in 2008 was published in 8.5"X11.5" size it's readability and pictures were in proper format and I was satisfied with my book.
Apparently, somewhere along the way, the company was sold to an unscrupulous entity that starting conning authors and would be authors.
Last year Trafford contacted stating they wanted to resize my book, at no cost me, so it would be a more desirable size for people to carry on airplanes, etc. I went along with it and they sent me a free authors copy which was 8.5"X5.5" and the print is barely readable and the photos are poor quality and faded. After receiving several complaints from friends and relatives who purchased the smaller size book, I contacted the company last month; stating I wanted it reformatted to it's original size. They related that I would have to resend them my original manuscript along with a an outrageous fee of five hundred dollars ($500) for them to return it to the original size. I told them they destroyed the readability for older people and those with poor eyesight and I refused to pay that outlandish fee for them to reset the format, at least to their closest size of the original. They refused.
The current book (page) margins take up half the page and the print is so ridiculously small you can barely read it without a magnifying glass! I am disgusted with the current sham of these rip off artists and demand that they return the book to its original format. They butchered it and they should correct their absurdity!

I bought a 2 book deal in 2013 2014.
The first book was a disaster but we managed to get through it because of me. I complained and they gave me a small credit which I deserved.
Since than I gave them a full layout for the second book and nothing was followed The y totally did something else almost like they. new they had to delay it. The illustrations were so poor you could get sick looking at them. I am a reliable person and tried to be part of the solution. They simply do not care. They actually really don't care if this book gets done. They really ruin peoples dreams. I had a deadline for October. Its gone on for 6 months . I finally had to hire an illustrator and she can get it done in a week.

They blame it on cover and their illustrators are sick. They simply hire the cheapest labor and believe they are illustrators. Being new to the business the first round I got through but now I want my money back or for them to pay for the outside service. I can't launch my book; I'll have to wait another year before I can launch it because it's a book about chocolate which should be launching now.

Getting someone to respond to my email and phone calls is nearly impossible. The quality of wok they do is poor .The illustrations they came with the package I purchased is horrible. I won't be using them. I will hire a freelancer to do my illustrations instead. I paid to get another company to edit my. Ook because the other 2 books I wrote was horrible edited. Take my advice don't publish with Trafford. My experience with this company is horrible. I think I will let them keep the money Ioaid to publish my new book. I might just oay another company to publish my new book instead. Even if I decide to publish be this last book with them I will never allow them to publish any of my other books In my opening this company is trash. Dump this garbage company and find someone better.

I published my book called mommies little helper in 2012. I have yet to see a royalty check. I am very upset and I'm hoping that I wasn't scammed out of my money. I believe I was charged 2000 to publish my book. I want to be let out of the contract or a refund of my money back. Please call me Thelisha mayfield at [protected]. Or email at [protected]@gmail.com

I'm the author of Counting Smiley Faces and Counting Zippy Smiley Faces by Pami L. Wahl And they in these languages as well Spanish, German
I only got paid once from Tradfford Publishing and I never got the 40 free copies of each book they told me I would. And I know they are selling because you go to different sights and you will see reviews for these books.
I had friends that bought these books, and Amazon.com keeps saying one more book left.
I talked with them about three months ago and told them I can not get on my author account to see how I'm doing and put down my new bank card.
I just would like to get what is come to me.
my email Address [protected]@gmail.com

i published the above book with trafford publishers in 2008.later trafford sought and got permission from me to publish an ebook copy of the book. i noticed they linked it up to amazon.co and even permitted other publishers to publish it on theirplatforms.but for Donkey years now trafford has not paid any royalty and i am agrieved and wants to know why. please reply to [protected]@gmail.com

ben ijeoma adigwe Esq

I took my first package in 2010 and the second one in 2013. Nothing happen from that, I did not received any loyalties and it affected my happy feeling about my first book. It has been a terrible experience with Trafford. They had called me all the time to get my money and then, nothing positive for me.

I like to know if they sale the book and don't give loyaties ? or I request a refund ! It iseems like a scam for new writers, they suppose to help them and not take adventage of them !
Please help if you can and for the new don't do the same !

I spoke with Lawrence last week about him sending me a copy via email of my late father's contract. The name of the book is titled Diabetes Epidemic & You,
Author Joseph R Kraft, MD.
I also spoke to a different person about getting the cost basis for author purchased books (the quantity discount rates) and I did not receive that information either.
I tried calling [protected] and it does go through. The operator says I need to check the number and try again. Which I have done several times.
Please respond to [protected]@gmail.com with a non 800 or 888 call back number.
Regards,
Mark Kraft

Trafford Publishing contacted me about expanding my reading program (four books) which they had published in 2008.. I agreed to pay for an e-book format for my books. From that time forward, Trafford tried very hard to sell me various marketing schemes I did not want. I did agree in some minor cases, and then refused to pay for anything more. From November, 2014 to mid April, I found that money was taken directly from my bank account without my knowledge or permission. I finally succeeded in shutting down my bank account in March/April. By this time, Trafford had stolen $36, 324 00 out of my bank account. These 'billings' appeared on my bank statements several times during each month (13 billings alone in March), plus over $5, 000 in April. My bank statements were peppered with the Trafford Logo, with huge chunks of money missing from my account. There are NO names connected with this fraud, so no person or persons at Trafford can be traced. .

Back in may 2014 after dealing with an illness i published my first book with trafford publishing. They took over £800 off me for it and that was half the original price of £1600. However, they published my book (Which was the first in a trilogy) with mistakes in it. The mistakes were not there on the final email they sent me. Then they don't pay royalties, they con you trying to buy other packages for marketing. I have never received a penny from them. I get emailf from their sister companies trying to scam me also. Then today (22nd december 2014) i find a new book out that has the same cover as my book. I am fuming from the whole experience. They took my book and crushed my dreams. Lucky for me i only signed up one book. I know people that have submitted their full series. I am hearing more and more people on my page getting scammed and i would like to know why they are getting away with it. The lists of complaints are endless. The proof is their. Any help or info would be great! Contact [protected]@mail.com