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Publishing

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

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Publishing

Sound-clip / sound clip

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A short segment or brief excerpt of speech or music introduced into electronic media as a primary, complementary, or supplementary component, also called "audio-clip"; including voice mail, verbal ...

Form / forme

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An assemblage of printing types, leads, and the like, secured in a chase to be printed from; classed as live (ready for press; typeset and proofed), dead (printed; awaiting melt or disassembly), or ...

Hieroglyphics

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Designating a symbolic language, in which many of the signs are conventionalized pictures of the things represented; also known as hieroglyphs. Also, characters that are difficult to read or ...

Perfect press

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Sheet-fed or web press capable of printing both sides of the paper during a single pass; also called "duplex press" and "perfector", as invented by Friedrich Koenig / Konig. See press.

Advertising linage

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The number of advertising pages carried by a magazine in any given period, usually includes a perspective on advertising space compared to editorial content, expressed as a ratio or percentage.

Outsource

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To subcontract for procedures or processes with specialised vendors outside the printing house, especially non-union outlets or foreign resources; also called "farm-out", "out-of-house", or "buy-out" ...

Potboiler

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A mediocre work of literature, or any other art, produced merely for financial gain. See dime novel, yellow journalism, writer.

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