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  Page Turner Press and Media

  333 H St Ste 5000 Chula Vista, CA 91910-5561

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  Page Turner Press and Media

  601 E Palomar St Ste C-478 Chula Vista, CA 91911

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• Review fromNeill R

  Date: 12/23/2023

  1 star
  I fell for their bait (my books have been accepted by traditional publishers. movie deals, etc..) and lost over $135,000. Even though I signed DocuSign agreements to receive month royalty payments, PageTurner is still selling my books worldwide on the internet and I haven't received a dime. SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!

• Review fromJeannette L

  Date: 12/13/2023

  1 star
  I was contacted by *****************, senior literary agent at PageTurner Press and Media. *** said he was contacting me given the views my book "The Spark, It's What They Want" received. He wanted to present it to a conventional publisher for acquisition. I told him I really wanted was to have my new book published. He said "we can do that too". *** appeared to have petitioned mainstream publishers. Macmallan responded with an acquisition purchase price. There were terms I was to meet which was to have book insurance on "The Spark" and I was to pay for advertising for new book for $8020.00 (I have a letter where it was to be advertised). His system was down for credit cards so I wired the money. The time kept clicking away then *** told me ****** ******* wanted in on the deal as well as Paramount movies. He said they were working out the finances. Time drug; since I still hadn't signed anything I wanted my money back. I gave call after call requesting it. Finally I called and he told me he deposited it despite my requesting it back. I found out much later that the correspondence that the Macmallan that responded to me was issued from a fraudulent address. I was able to find their actual address and asked them if their proposal of acquisition was legitimate or fraudulent. They said it was a fraud. I downloaded some paperwork stating that PageTurner Press and Media was on their fraud alert list & they do not work with or have a relationship with them. They provided a listing of Macmillan illegitimate domains which *** used to appeared to me as being legitimate from Macmallan. At the time I would have liked to have trusted someone calling themself my literary agent who said he had my best interest in mind & considered that this was a legitimate business. He said he would get 12% of whatever I earned from the acquisition and therefore it would be in his interest to see that the acquisition would go through. ********* said *** impersonated them and ***************************.

• Review fromChristopher V

  Date: 11/15/2023

  1 star
  Awful, awful. I was called (hounded) by ************************* from this company. She sent over a proopsal for me to switch my publishing company from Xlibris to Pageturner. I was promised new distribution, marketing, etc. I had to pay $1800 for their services and was given a lot of promises. I was then called (again and again mind you) that in order to get my book into book stores, I needed to pay $699 more dollars for "book insurance." I was told that doing so is the key to get my book into book stores because the stores can return unsold books with no issue. Immediately after I paid, my **** ******* went **** When I got my copies of the book, I saw that the print quality was awful compared with Xlibris. I immediately contacted ******* sent her photos and told her that this has to be improved. More than 6 months passed with me leaving messages for ****** 1-2 times per week (via email and phone). I heard nothing. Finally I heard back from her and I was told that "it was still being worked on." The print quality is STILL awful these 2 years later. Also, I was promised a full report as to what was done on my behalf as far as getting my book into book stores. I never got any report whatsoever about this. I was never informed as to which bookstores were approached about selling my book, how many copies, etc. To this day I have no idea where my $699 went becuse no book store has EVER put my book in store so not sure why I needed to purchase the book insurance. This company calls and calls when looking for me to purchase upgrades, but then goes *** when I try to contact. To this day (over 2 years) I have not recieved 1 dime in residuals. I am in the process of contacting everyone at the company to see what kind of refund I can get because clearly the $$ I sent was not used in the way I was promised. STAY FAR AWAY!

• Review fromDarlene E

  Date: 10/18/2023

  1 star
  I was scammed twice by two separate agents who promised to make me rich and famous with the acquisition of my book by a major publishing company, i.e. Macmillan. I paid $12,500.00 the second time I gave them an opportunity to redeem themselves. The first agent took all the money I had invested and later died. I do not know how, but that is what the company told me later. They said they would try to make the situation right with me, and I never heard back from them again.

• Review fromLucila I

  Date: 10/08/2023

  1 star
  This is not at all credible nor is it trustworthy. I am considering filing a class action lawsuit, it is absolutely a scam. I, along with so many others was scammed out of our savings based on completely false and fraudulent intentions. When I went to visit their "office" - it didn't exist. What I found was a dry cleaning establishment that had never heard of PageTurners. I'm livid. The review requires a star rating for it to be accepted. I'd give a negative - no stars. Based on the many reviews I have been reading, I had been taken to the cleaners - wiped out of my savings. Also, why the BBB rating? They, the BBB can not enforce anything.

• Review fromBarbara C

  Date: 10/04/2023

  1 star
  You get no stars from me. You took over $100,000 from me, I have no 401k now. At 76 years old you are really causing me great distress. You sold no books, I paid $10,000 for a New ********** book review and instead you put a tiny picture of my book on the page. You are dealing with elder abuse in my case and I should have listened to my family, I have notified the San Diego District Attorney and hope to get some (if not all) of the money back from you scammers.One star because they would not let me leave you none.

• Review fromJoe F

  Date: 09/27/2023

  1 star
  Page Turner also took me to the cleaners. I paid for bulk book return insurance and they never produced books in bulk. Instead they produced books on demand with a 1-2 month lead-time. They tried to get me to pay for a major magazine interview in order to get me onto the New ********** best seller list before my book was even published. They produced a fake Acquisition Manager (*****) for Paramount Pictures to acquire my book writes to produce a movie. I asked for proof that ***** was on the Paramount Pictures employee list and never got a response. I paid for a movie script to be written and asked for the receipt from the ******************** to them. They never replied and stopped calling. I wish we could all find an attorney that would start a class action lawsuit against Page Turner. I would rate them minus **** stars if that was an option.

• Review fromshayne A

  Date: 09/13/2023

  1 star
  This company scammed my dad out of everything he had upwards of 250K. He died from the stress of this. I have every email and loads of proof. Stay away from this company. **** literally killed my father and destroyed my family. ****************** is a scammer.

• Review fromThaddeus F

  Date: 09/12/2023

  1 star
  I am devastated, Page turner press let me pay $200,000 to publish my book and promise me a book signing 7 times and cancelled it. Now they are telling me to pay for the tax of $132,000 on money that I have not seen or received. everytime they call its a new lie I believe the agent the way she makes her presentation but its all made stories now they are waiting for another $33,000I said I do not have any more money they said go borrow it. I have been taken for a ride and did not know where I was going. Page turner and MacMillion Publishers can I get my money back I am broke.

• Review fromShelley C

  Date: 08/22/2023

  1 star
  I was put in a funnel. Early steps asked I pay for editing, artwork, cover art, website, ad with Publisher's weekly...full page. The book did come out on Amazon. I still have no royalties. A second art collection book was purchased and promised to be published. It is not out, though I will keep checking Amazon to see. Suddenly my agent called to have me check my emails that ****** ******* saw the ad in Publishers weekly and selected my book for purchase of copyrights and distribution worldwide. I would get at least $150 k contingent on endorsement with NY Times and L A Times. Then they wanted me to remain silent, yet no document was proffered for me to sign a non-disclosure agreement. The agent RD, pretending great excitement, told me Page turner would pay the bulk of the endorsement grease, and he personally would go in for a large sum, yet they needed $19k from me.!!! I believed them! So, I said all I had was $8k. He said, "We'll take that and find the rest somewhere else." He wanted a check so I wrote one and sent a photo of it by text...he said it was to Page Turner Publishing and I needed to write another to Page TurnerPress. And for me to get it asap in the post office express mail. But my car was out, so he said to take Uber! He would pay me $120 for my trouble. But when I called my friend who had my car to pick me up she found out what for and told me it was a scam. I called ****** ******* who said they never selected my book, never ask for NY Times endorsements, never look in Publishers Weekly and did not send me an email offering $150k for rights to distribute my book.