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  1. To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
  2. To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.
  3. To announce to the public.

Publishing is the process of mass production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view.

Traditionally, the term refers to the distribution of printed works such as books and newspapers.

With the advent of the reading revolution in the mid 19th century, publishing became a mass medium, see Grub Street.



Contents

Anonymous publishing since the 17th century

Publishers of the 19th and 20th centuries

Radical publishers of the 19th and 20th centuries

Famous printers

See also

Publishing on specific contexts:





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