The publishing house is a medium enterprise, which multiplies and spreads works of the literature, art, music or science. The sales can be made by the trade (art, book trade etc.) or via the publishing house.

The publishing house or the person of the publisher usually acquires the right to use at the manuscript of an author (copyright) due to a contract and provides for production (preparation for the pressure) and evenly the pressure of the work. Secondly he procures the advertisement and the selling over the different selling ways, for example over the book trade or the press wholesale. The third function lies in the Vorfinanzierung, as the word origin makes clear already, because shifting comes from presentation.

Employees in a publishing house practice the occupation of the publishing house buyer (new job title: Medium buyer/woman Digital and Print) out or are active in the publishing house production.

Self and small publishing house

An author, who lets books without publishing house print its and sells, has a self publishing house. That differs from a small publishing house, in which a tradesman shifts stranger or own works. In terms of figures by far most publishing houses are in the category, many are tiny. Private possession flows in, as well as the own, almost unpaid achievement. Usually the owner of a small publishing house is personally engaged to spread certain contents and enjoys the profession. Because authors earn still little also with certain success, they are usually dependent to change to larger publishing houses if they have something success - which keeps the small publishing houses further small (footboard strategy). Small publishing houses, which the footboard role to escape and higher incomes want, would have their unknown authors either (laboriously, expensively, often unsuitable) admit to make or (substantially more simply) for more well-known authors exchange. Which is naturally (nearly) impossible and would keep unfortunately unknown authors further unknown. Or: Perhaps authors look for in publishing houses the missing financial participation, which their investment in the letter (copyright is a capital form) maximally pay interest on. Publishing houses need the investment most profit-promising in each case, thus an investment in at the easiest and/or with largest profit salesable Buchtitel. However neither all authors nor all publishing houses are stubbornly on maximum profit out otherwise it soon example books, travel guides and Erotik Comics would only give. Only from this to one reason of common interests beyond the capital net yield are again and again across literature history to each other suitable authors and publishing houses, who get over also heavy times despite all disadvantages on the market, in-end. Often these alliances place then (even if they do not experience success sometimes any longer) the future world literature.

Subsidies

A characteristic represents the subsidy publishing house and/or exact pressure cost subsidy publishing houses. Of course and nevertheless with difficulty to achieve are pressure cost subsidies (firm term) for scientific work. They go to renowned publishing houses. Pressure cost subsidies come usually from the largest the science in this country, the German research council (DFG), in addition, from the DAAD and many public and private donations.

Kinds of publishing house

Publishing houses can be arranged according to their Hauptprodukten:

• Book publishing house (see also technical book publishing house)
• Fine-art publishing house and music publishing house,
• Newspaper publisher,
• Magazine publishing house,
• Play publishing house,
• Map publishing house
• Science publishing house
• and special areas (e.g. form publishing house).

See also

• List of publishing houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• List of international publishing houses
• Internationally standard Book NUMBER (ISBN)
• Copyright, copyright, right of publication
• First edition, association of trade of the German book trade
• Publishing house industry, publishing house number (part of the ISBN), baking cunning, university publishing house
• Commission publishing house

• Publishing house system (or publishing house) as organization form of handicraft production - e.g. beer publishing house
• Subsidy publishing house

Literature

• Pure hard Mundhenke, Marita Teuber: The publishing house buyer. Occupation technical instruction for buyers in newspaper, magazine and book publishing houses. . completely edition revised 9 2002, 696 sides, ISBN 3-7973-0792-6
• Kurt Tohermes, hitting a corner hard Bremen field, Holger scarce: Specialized knowledge of newspaper and magazine publishing houses. Manual for occupations of publishing house and specialists from beyond. Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-9806-28604
• Dietrich chaps: Text book of the book publishing house economy. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7762-1002-8
• Ralf Laumer (Hg.): Books communicate. The PR-work book for libraries, bookshops and publishing houses, Viola falcon mountain Bremen, 2005, ISBN 3-937822-39-9
• Manfred Plinke: Mini publishing house. Self publishing house, Publishing on and, establishment of publishing house, book production, Buchmerketing, book trade, direct sale, 6. revised and extended edition, Berlin: Author house publishing house, 2005
• Schiffrin, Publishing houses without publishers: over the future of the books, Berlin: Car brook, 2000

Related links

• Training and occupation of publishing house buyers
• List of publishing houses in Germany (service of the university library center North Rhine-Westphalia)
• Publishing houses in Austria
• Publishing houses in Switzerland.
• Author house - side for authors and publishers (also with referring to DKZ publishing houses)

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