Publishing involves several key stages including acquisition, copy editing, graphic design, production, and distribution. Traditionally, publishers have produced paperback and hardback books, magazines, newspapers, and leaflets, but now also publish digital materials like ebooks, blogs, and online magazines. Large publishing companies like H Bauer and IPC publish many magazines and digital content. The overall goal of publishing is to make information available to the general public through various channels and media.

1. Publishing
By Haitham Salim

2. About Publishing
 The stages of publishing is of
development, acquisition, copy-
editing, graphic design. The process
of production, dissemination of
literature, music is all got to do with
publishing. This activity of making
information available to the general
public.
 Publisher can also refer to the
individual who leads a publishing
company

3. The types of products that have
been traditionally published
 Paper back books, hard back books
which are a more professional and
stronger version of the paper
back, magazines, newspapers and
leaflets were a compulsory and
effective way of introducing new
magazine issues that would be
coming out

4. New products that would be
published in the digital age
 Online blogs would be a way of
publishing new issues of magazines,
online magazine from there websites
for example www.empire.com, e-
books which are cheaper than buying
real books, digital magazines are a
new way of publishing magazine
issues

5. Publishing companies
 H Bauer is a very large company that
publish many different magazine
 National magazine company
 IPC is the UK’s leading consumer
magazine and digital publisher with
more than 60 iconic media brands.

6. Key stages of publishing
 Acquisition-to get hold of information
by having interviews with the editors
agents, managers. The journalists go
out to get interviews and the have to
get permission by the record labels.
Information is also obtained by buying
news form the Roytars.
 Copy editing- editors check the final
production

7.  Graphic design- the graphic designers
create the layout and design of the
pages. Also by sorting out the pages
would be the page designers job.
 Production- this is when all the
magazine pages are put together and
sorted out.

8.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9
AAfGgJuU&safe=active this 2 minute
video shows how a magazine is made
and how it is distributed. Also how
they get all there information.
 Printing- all the data of the magazine
is sent to the publisher in an electronic
copy so that it can be printed.
 Marketing- TV adverts, Music
channels, key month issues

9.  Distribution- the magazine gets sent to
the warehouse and from there it gets
distributed into retail, newsagents
corner store, online by sending it
straight through the post which is a
new way of sailing a magazine,
supermarket is also a recent idea and
social network sites.