Publishing
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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- To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
- To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.
- 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.
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Publishers
Dalkey Archive Press - Atlas Press - Jörg Schröder - John Calder - Sylvia Beach - Creation Books - Edmund Curll - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Maurice Girodias - Glittering Images - Grove Press - Eric Losfeld - Headpress - New Directions - Obelisk Press - Olympia Press - Jean-Jacques Pauvert - RE/Search publications (V.Vale and A. Juno) - Barney Rosset - Taschen
Anonymous publishing since the 17th century
Radical publishers of the 19th and 20th centuries
Famous printers
- Johannes Gutenberg
- John Baskerville
- Jodocus Badius
- Henry Estienne
- William Caxton
- Benjamin Franklin
- Colard Mansion
- Aldus Manutius
- Francysk Skaryna
- Christoffel Plantijn
- Johann Froben
- Hieronymus Froben
- Wright Brothers
- Charlotte Guillard
See also
- Press
- Printing
- Public
- Self-publishing
- Concentration of media ownership
- List of publishers
- Mass media
- Publication
- Self-publishing
- Serials, periodicals and journals
- Small press
- Writing
- Zines
Publishing on specific contexts:
- Academic publishing
- Scientific literature
- Books published per country per year
- Writing circles
- Document management system