Illegitimate

As Jim Macdonald says:

"PA is a vanity press that lies about itself, pretending to be a legitimate press.

Whatever business they're in, regardless of what they tell the people they've suckered, they aren't in the business of selling books to the general public. They're in the business of selling unedited slush, at full price, to their own authors."

That about sums it up. That's why Publishamerica is a lying scam and not a legitimate anything including a vanity press. They're lower.