Usually means: Publisher charging authors to publish.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word vanity press:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. vanity press: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vanity press: Merriam-Webster
  3. vanity press: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vanity press: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vanity press: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. vanity press: Wiktionary
  7. vanity press: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. vanity press: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. vanity press: Dictionary.com
  10. Vanity-press, Vanity press: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. vanity press: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vanity press)

noun:  (derogatory) A book publisher that lets the author pay the expenses of publishing up front, leaving the risk of financial failure with the author.

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