Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC operated, in general, on the vanity press model in which most authors paid for the publication of their books.
[3] The company was founded by Richard and Rita Tate and was located in Mustang, Oklahoma.
[5][6] In January 2017 Tate ceased operation and notified the public that they would no longer accept new authors.
[7] In December 2019, Richard and Ryan Tate, respectively the former founder and CEO, pleaded no contest to 44 criminal charges, including embezzlement, attempted extortion, conspiracy and racketeering, that were laid in a Canadian County, Oklahoma district court.
The presiding judge in the case issued an order related to how customers would be granted reimbursement for their estimated $900,000 in losses over the next 20 years.