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Definition: publishing from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

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(1580) : the business or profession of the commercial production and issuance of literature, information, musical scores or sometimes recordings, or art 〈newspaper ⁓〉 〈software ⁓〉

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From Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature: The Encyclopedia of the Novel
The age of print and publishing begins with the development of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg (fl. 13901468) in Mainz, Germany in about 1450. Adapting techniques and equipment used in agricultural settings (e.g., the grape press), by 1456 Gutenberg had begun producing multiple copies of texts in printed form, including a 42-line Bible, some grammatical works, a papal indulgence, and at least one broadside astrological calendar. Within a few years of its first use, this new technology for making books had spread throughout Europe (see paper and print ). Printing proved a lucrative business: books became valuable commodities, requiring the development of a sophisticated network of production, sales, and distribution. The late medieval book trade had centered on local markets and needs. The age of humanism, an increase in literacy in the 1600s, and the expansion of literary culture to embrace literature, however, saw printing and publishing expand to become international in…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
The Gutenberg 42-line Bible, printed in Mainz,...
Traditionally, the selection, preparation, and distribution of printed matter—including books, newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets. Contemporary publishing includes the production of materials in digital formats such as CD-ROMs, as well as materials created or adapted for electronic distribution. …
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
As the Gilded Age publisher Henry Holt once observed, a “book is a thing by itself. There is nothing like it, as one shoe is like another, or as one kind of whiskey is like another.” Part commodity and part cultural artifact, often subject to the whims of popular taste, books have variable social…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
Publishing, in the modern sense, dates from the 19th cent. when the book publisher became distinct from the bookseller and printer. Monasteries and then universities had the virtual monopoly of book production before the introduction of *printing , which made possible publication for a wider…
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From The Handy Answer Book Series: The Handy African American History Answer Book Full text Article BUSINESS AND COMMERCE
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), newspaper editor and publisher, founded the Chicago Defender in 1905 and developed it into one of the most successful black business enterprises. His paper has been called one of the leading, if not the leading, black newspapers. His power was recognized as…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Production of books for sale. The publisher arranges for the commissioning, editing, printing, binding, warehousing, and distribution of books to booksellers or book clubs. Although all rights in a book may be purchased by the publisher for a single outright fee, it is more usual that a fixed…
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From Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events Full text Article BUSINESS
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John H. Johnson (1918–2005), the founder of Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951), was the first black named as one of the country's “Ten Outstanding Young Men” by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. This was the first of many awards for Johnson. In 1972 he became the first black to receive the…
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From The New Penguin Dictionary of Music
The sale of music in copies on paper began with the rise of capitalist economies around 1500, the first music publishers being also printers, in Venice (Petrucci, 1501), Paris (Attaingnant, 1528), Nuremberg, and the Low Countries (Susato, 1543; Phalèse, 1545). In England the trade was pioneered by…
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From The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
The impact of publishing and print culture on the American Enlightenment can hardly be overstated. Under the aegis of the Enlightenment, printing, nation building, and the forging of a national identity went hand in hand in the American colonies and early Republic. Few contemporary commentators on…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
If I had been someone not very clever, I would have done an easier job like publishing. That’s the easiest job I can think of. [Attr.] Now Barabbas was a publisher. CAMPBELL, Thomas Attr. in Smiles, Samuel , A Publisher and his Friends (1891). As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Historically, it came to refer to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like; it now also encompasses issuing such materials in an electronic form. There is, however, great…
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