"Vanity publishing" is when the aim of the operation is for the author to have their name on something that looks like a book, for the sake of it.   

It's not the same as wanting to share something you've written, with the focus on that, and not on the person who wrote it. That's no different from standing up and singing a song you've written. If you don't don't do that you aren't treating it fairly.   Songs have a right to be heard. And kat's words have a right to be read. And other people have a right to read them.

And for nasty money-grubbing types, this looks like a pretty good investment too...