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    Business ProfileforWestwood Books Publishing

    Publications

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.88/5stars

    Average of 8 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    14 complaints closed in last 3 years

    11 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    10389 Almayo Ave #103, Los Angeles, CA 90064-5301
    BBB File Opened:
    6/19/2018
    Years in Business:
    6
    Business Started:
    4/2/2018
    Licensing Information:
    This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.
    BBB records show a license number of 201811410650 for this business, issued by Secretary of State-Corporations

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    Secretary of State-Corporations

    1500 11th Street

    Sacramento CA 95814

    (916) 653-6814

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    Business Management
    • Lexie Smith, Principal
    • Jordan Scott, Customer Contact
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Jordan Scott, Customer Contact

    Customer Contact

    • Lexie Smith, Principal
    • Jordan Scott, Customer Contact
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    Customer Complaints

    14 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    07/26/2024

    Complaint Type:
    Product Issues
    Status:
    Unanswered
    I published my book with Westwood Books Publishing in 2023. I was brutally scammed and lost lots of money. They promise the success of a book and collect as much money as possible. They call 20 times a day until they take money from you, and will not respond to your emails and phone when its time to provide the promised services for which they collected the money in advance. They overcharged me above and beyond for the printing and launching of my book in the online market. However several other services listed with BW Oak Package were not provided. I made these payments towards the printing project: 2019- $3599 4/18/23 Full-Color Oak Package-$500 4/28/23 Hard Book Availability $500 4/27/23 Resubmission Fee $250 01/25/23 Amazon Title Express $7999 $600 -01/31/2023 Book Trailor $8401 -01/14/2023 Traditional Publishing Campaign $500 -04/28/2023- US copyright registration $3500 - 05/17/2023- Printers Row & 2023 Miami Book signing $1000 -11/27/2023- 12 ****************** Campaign $197001/26/2024Barnes & Noble book campaign $3000-04/21/2024 I filed the fraud disputes and collected part of the money. But still, I am at a loss of about half.Informed me on 3/13/24 that Westwood Books Publishing will close. The sales manager offered to republish my book under Boundless Script Ventures with their new company. I fell into the trap again and invested $3000 to help republish my book.If they have been out of business since March 2024, why is their web page still alive and selling my book? But deactivated my author's web page.Interestingly, my book is listed for sale at Westwood Books Publishing and Boundless Script Ventures. Who is earning the royalty for selling my books and paying sellers like Amazon their sales contribution? I have not been paid anything for the last 2 quarters. This situation is a major fraud against authors, hoarding money from them directly with false promises for services not provided, and keeping sales proceeds to themselves.

    Customer Reviews

    8 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    Sayed R

    1 star

    04/07/2024

    On January 3, 2024, ***************** from Westwood Books called me to say that he wants to market my book INNOCENT TEARS by distributing to ****** and *****. He explained that at least 300 paperback books should be distributed. Each paperback book costs $3.50 and 300 books totally cost me $1050. He charged my card for $1050. However, he suggested that distributing my book in hardcover would be more attractive. I agreed with him. Therefore, he said that to change 300 paperback books to hardcover books, I need to pay $200 more. So he canceled $1050 and now he charged my card for $1250. He also told me that the money from the sales of the books goes to me. While I was very happy with this deal, when I received the contract, there was nothing that he had told me. When I saw his contract, and meanwhile I learned that those books were only for display, not for sale, I Immediately rejected his deal and asked ***************** to refund my money. In the meantime, I wrote them a rejection letter and demanded an immediate refund. Although *****************, *****, and ******, the three of them promised to have my money refunded, they have still kept the money without receiving any service from them. I found Westwood Books publishing unfair, unprofessional and unreliable.

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