Edwin Mellen Press

The Edwin Mellen Press, sometimes stylised as Mellen Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1972 by theology professor Herbert W. Richardson. It has been involved in a number of notable legal and academic controversies, sometimes being labeled as a vanity press.

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