2. What is publishing
 Publishing is the process of production
and dissemination of literature, music, or
information the activity of making
information available to the general
public.

3. Types of publishing.
Types of publishing:
 General - or consumer - books: including mass-market paperbacks
and accounting for 60% of the industry's sales in the UK. Consumer
publishing produces the most widely known titles: best selling fiction
and non-fiction; those most frequently reviewed; those featured in the
media; and those prominently displayed in retail outlets.
 Children's book publishing: a lively and growing sector of consumer
book publishing. It has been estimated that fifty per cent of all children's
book sales in the UK are made through non-traditional trade channels
such as children's school book clubs and fairs.
 Journals, educational, academic, reference, scientific and technical,
professional, and medical publishing: in these areas, publishers are far
more likely to be involved in initiating a book, journal or series, so
opportunities can arise for graduates in specialized subjects.
 The processes of book publishing are generally divided into editorial,
design and production, marketing (sales and publicity), distribution, the
handling of contracts and rights, and administration (which includes the
accounting and general computing functions).

4. Public service publishing.
 Such books often employ the services of a
ghostwriter. In providing a work to the general
public, the publisher takes responsibility for the
publication in a way to help the people in public
places

5. National publishing
 National Publications was one of the companies
that would later become DC Comics. The
corporation was originally two companies:
National Allied Publications (founded by Major
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1934 to publish the
first American comic book with all-original
material rather than comic strip reprints) and
Detective Comics.
 They two merged in the 1930s to become National
Comics (later National Periodical Publications). In
1945, National Publications purchased All-
American Publications, a company with which it
shared offices and some business relationships.

6. Digital publishing
 Digital publishing is a company that
licenses and releases, in English,
Japanese anime, manga, and related
merchandise

7. Regional publishing
 Regional Publishing, is now a business that
is unit for establishing the National
Reporter System, a system of regional
reporters.

8. World service publishing
 Publishing World Service has provided
services by direct. Most of the BBC's
magazine and book publishing activities
were sold in 2011.

9. Advantages and
disadvantages of publishing.
Advantages:
 Easy and simple to use
 Graphic is easily imported and formatted
 Numerous Template
 Professional printing and publishing options
Disadvantages
 Very slow installation process
 Not particular formats.
 Not very suitable for office use

10. The publishing aim to…
 The publisher aims to have to take
publishers out of publishing to claim that
they already do most of the work involved
in publishing their research on computers
or other technical things.

11. What else does the publishing
own.
 The copyrights owned and administered
by publishing companies are one of the
most important forms of intellectual
property in the publishing industry.