the business or profession of editing, producing, and marketing books, newspapers, magazines, printed music, and, now also, audiobooks, software, etc.
Examples of 'publishing' in a sentence
publishing
Publishing houses are fighting to stem the flow.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Publishing experts sneered at the results.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Publishing houses may be facing their iPod moment.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
When you sat down to work on 100% Publishing what came first the production or the lyrics?
The Sun (2011)
In other languages
publishing
British English: publishing NOUN
Publishing is the profession of publishing books.
I had a very high-powered job in publishing.
American English: publishing
Brazilian Portuguese: a indústria editorial
Chinese: 出版业
European Spanish: industria editorial
French: édition
German: Verlagswesen
Italian: editoria
Japanese: 出版業
Korean: 출판업
European Portuguese: a indústria editorial
Latin American Spanish: industria editorial
All related terms of 'publishing'
publish
When a company publishes a book or magazine , it prints copies of it, which are sent to shops to be sold .
desktop publishing
Desktop publishing is the production of printed materials such as newspapers and magazines using a desktop computer and a laser printer , rather than using conventional printing methods . The abbreviation → DTP is also used.
niche publishing
publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
publishing company
a firm which publishes books
publishing house
A publishing house is a company which publishes books.
vanity publishing
the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
electronic publishing
Electronic publishing is the publishing of documents in a form that can be read on a computer, for example as a CD-ROM .
co-publish
to publish (something) with another person or company