Dear Carlos,
My advice is that you ought not to contact any publisher before you have revised your PhD thesis to make it ready for book publication. Leading publishers are swamped with proposals from recent PhD graduates. Most thesis projects are not ready to be books before revision. Beth Luey's (2008) Revising Your Dissertation is a good place to start.
Whatever you do, you should not work with any publisher that offers to publish your thesis without revision. You should not publish your thesis with VDM (Verlag Dr. Muller) or LAP (Lambert Acadmic Publishing). While LAP and VDM are not vanity presses in the sense that you do not pay to produce the book, they do you no good — they make your manuscript unacceptable for any serious publisher, they exert control of copyright to that portion of the book they wish to control, and because the material is publishers, they make it impossible to turn your thesis into journal articles.
Be patient and careful — get serious advice and start by turning your thesis into a proper book manuscript.
Feel free to write me off-list if you have further questions.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | Mobile +61 404 830 462 | Home Page http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/people/Professor-Ken-Friedman-ID22.html<http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design> Academia Page http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman About Me Page http://about.me/ken_friedman
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Reference
Luey, Beth. 2008. Revising Your Dissertation. Advice from Leading Editors. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
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