Hopefully they'll read the email carefully. It does say among the email's word salad that the author pays the publisher $30 or $50 a page. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 16, 2013, at 10:14 AM, "M. Christine Benner Dixon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Is there a way to send this warning to other conference presenters who = > may not be on this mailing list? > It looks as if they may have mined the conference materials for email = > addresses. > > Christine > > On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Robert E Stewart wrote: > >> Today I received the following in a carefully designed email. David=20= > >> Publishing is a bait-and-switch scam. You allow them to edit your = > paper, then you=20 >> get a big bill for their "work". Their use of English [below] should = > be=20 >> enough warning. I checked--David Publishing is a scamming operation. = > Yellow=20 >> highlighting is in the original email Bob Stewart >> =20 >> =20 >> This is a journal entitled Journal of Literature and Art Studies = > (ISSN=20 >> 2159-5836) published across the United States by David Publishing = > Company, EL=20 >> MONTE, CA, USA. We are glad to know you have submitted an abstract=20 >> ...[goves the name]...at The Seventh International Conference on the = > State of Mark=20 >> Twain Studies. We are very interested in your research and would like = > to=20 >> publish your new paper in our journal. If you have the idea of making = > our=20 >> journal as a vehicle for your research interests, please send us the = > English =20 >> electronic version of your paper in MS word format. =20 > > M. Christine Benner Dixon > [log in to unmask]