Considering the fact that I'm a graduate student with a couple of publications, here is the email I've recently received from [this website][1] (I found it in my spam folder): > Dear Dr. Robotocist, ------------> (I'm not a doctor!!!) > Firstly, please excuse this unsolicited email. > I’m sure that like me you receive too many as it is and so I’ll keep > it brief. > I was recently appointed as Commissioning Editor for > Cambridge Scholars Publishing with a brief to expand the subject areas > in which we publish books. As such I am in the process of developing a > collection based in the field of Robotics. As I believe you already > have some experience of academic and scientific writing, I wondered > whether you would consider us as your publisher should you decide to > put ‘pen to paper’ and write a book at some point in the future? > We > are also developing Editorial Advisory Groups to help ensure that we > only publish high quality texts. If this is something that you would > like to become involved in, please do let me know. As I promised, I > have kept this message short, but would be delighted to talk or > correspond more if you feel you would like to explore possibilities. > Kind regards, > Helen Edwards > Commissioning Assistant To me, *this is a miserable fake thing*, and I just wanted to know whether or not anybody has encountered this organization before. [1]: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/