AuthorHouse (formerly 1st Books): Not recommended. A vanity publisher.
5/17/06 - If you don't know by now, AuthorHouse lost a libel suit in court. It seems that the courts and jury decided that a publisher couldn't disavow itself of what it published. In other words, AuthorHouse should have vetted what it accepted before publishing. Now they owe several hundred thousand dollars and may have to pay even more in punitive damages.

The above was on Preditors and Editors. Here is what they had to say about IUniverse:

iUniverse: Vanity and self-publisher service. Site provides honest information about their services.



Here is the link for P&E. http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/peba.htm