What are opinions about Tate Publishing?

There are (at least) two businesses called Tate Publishing. There is a defunct work-at-home company by that name about which there is little information available. There is also a Christian book publisher based in Mustang, Oklahoma, by the name Tate Publishing, LLC, and they are a legitimate business. They receive an A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau, which is the best possible score.

Tate Publishing in Mustang, OK is a vanity publisher, who has a very good website of what I have found to be misrepresentation and outright lies.

They do have a staff of Excellent sales people, but you are the one getting sold. they accept everybody that sends them their fees, (of nearly $4,000) which is about 1% of the folks who send their check before checking them out. Every real writers group in America has them on their black-list; meaning they warn their members to stay away from DR. Tate and his not so Christian vanity publishing house.

But you don't need to take mine Word or anyone else for that matter. Go look at any book seller anywhere in the world (other than Tate's own) and try to find a single book they have published. I tried for several hours (I wanted to be sure before I sent my complaint to my Attorney General about their miss-leading advertising. I would not recommend any involvement with this outfit without you doing a great deal if research.

If they ask you for money, than it's a scam. Always do your research. Look up Tate Records and see if they a known record label or a legit recording label. Look up "Tate Music Group Scam" to see other people's experience with the label. An A&R usually signed artist and not the label. If an A&R asks for money, than he is a con. Most A&R's offer a contract deal and then offer money to you and you have to pay them back once your album does well in the market.

It's not a scam, but it IS more of a marketing business. I will say that a lot of the stuff they offer, you can do yourself for free or very little cost. i.e. website-40 bucks, iTunes album- 26 bucks, Amazon mp3, etc. IF you subtract that from 2 grand you save a LOT of money. You can also call radio stations yourself to announce your concerts which they'll most likely reject without payment anyways and TMG doesnt say they pay radio stations but that they tell them about you coming. Which lets be honest, most radiOS don't care unless they're paid. If you got 2 grand to blow than it might be worth a shot just to see, but if you applied there chances are you don't have a spare 2 grand. I personally am going to try itunes with my album first, if it does well on its own, i don't need them, if not, that might say something too. btw- copyrighting your CD is like 35 bucks, but trademarking your band's name is like 385 bucks so with that added you still save about 1500 dollars.