Vantage Press was a publishing company based in New York City with an advertised office in Hollywood.
[3] In 1955, they landed a title on the national best-sellers list for their first and only time; Jehova's Witnesses sold 100,000 copies.
By 1958, they were facing legal problems, as the Federal Trade Commission raised charges regarding their use of the term "cooperative" to explain their business model, when the author was actually paying all of the costs.
[4] In 1990, the State Supreme Court in New York ordered Vantage to pay $3.5 million in damages to 2,200 authors it had defrauded.
According to the plaintiffs, Vantage charged money upfront, but never promoted the books as the authors had expected.