Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

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Miscellany

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A book or other assemblage of literary works by several authors on various topics; an "omnium-gatherum". See anthology, cento, garland, compilation, chapbook, oeuvre.

A book containing synonyms and antonyms, arranged by subject or alphabetically; first published in 1852 by Peter Mark Roget as "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to ...

Escalation

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A contractual agreement to increase the magnitude of royalty payments when sales exceed a predetermined quantity, or when a publication is reprinted, revised, or reissued in a different format. See ...

Dialogue / dialogue

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A conversational exchange between two or more characters in a literary or filmic work, including repartee, raillery, discourse, and interrogation, also known as "duologue"; as distinguished from ...

Hypertext

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A computer programming method of storing data for random access or retrieval through non-sequential information links; as derived from a metaphoric expression for browsing unstructured ideas or ...

Stream

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A continuous succession, especially of data input, as contents flowing "on stream" to complete a project or enable operation; such as when text flows into a template around design elements and ...

Blurb

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A brief advertisement, notice, endorsement, or excerpted review, as on a book jacket, expressing praise or approbation; coined by F.G. Burgess (ca1910), and also called "cover blurb" or "advance ...