The price of any scam is too much. We would like to think that everything that doesn't work out for us is a scam. Truth is that is just not so. In the past four years that we have researched alleged publishing scams we have found that over 85% are just poor business practices. Yes 85%. That being said, we do believe that there‘re people and companies that are set up to take Author’s money. BUT!.... this is very hard to prove and with the recent changes in Internet Law it is precarious to just wildly print names and companies. What you can use to protect yourself is to research every item that is offered to you as a writer/author