iUniverseReviews of iuniverse.com

The most suspect, underhanded, sketchy place I've ever seen. Out to scam the elderly out of their life savings by preying on their dreams of publishing a book. Don't do it. Run away.

I've been wanting to get my novel published for a while now. Iuniverse caught wind of it like a bloodhound and made me an offer. "One fee, 3 installments, get everything you will need." That was a lie. They have been charging me for everything from editing, to marketing, to making me a website. They charged me for cover art, promising an artist to make me what I needed and get me a site of copyright-free pictures to choose from. I lost my job after my car and my wifes' car broke down. I asked for a refund to try and put the funds towards getting a car working again. They won't refund me $2,000 of the $2,500 I've put into the project because of its been longer than 3 months. They won't refund me the full 500 from my last installment because I will only get 10% or 150, whichever is greater.

They constantly will try to get more money out of me but can’t deliver on there end my book was searchable for weeks up until yesterday all of a sudden it’s no longer searchable and because the library of Congress had an update for the site my book isn’t available on other platforms except iUniverse and they can never give me an answer as of why things keep going wrong. I will never go through iUniverse for a book ever again.