A subsidy publisher that produces books with the author paying all costs, including advertising, distribution, and shipping. As with other publishers, vanity presses normally do not permit author discretion, other than paper color and binding style. The author retains copyright. The royalty portion of sales disbursed by other publishers is non-existent, but the author retains all income (less expenses) from all book sales. The phrase "lemon squeezer" was coined by H.L. Mencken to describe this vanity "press" that extorts money for printing bad books. See self-publishing, assisted self-publishing, subsidy publisher, publishing house.