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A publisher is the company that produces and sells a book or paper. Find a publisher, the publisher rejected it, a small publisher.
Money flows to the author, never from them, which is the oldest test of a real one against a vanity press. A publisher edits, prints, distributes and markets, and self-publishing means doing all four yourself. In law a publisher is liable for what it publishes.
1nounpublisherThe company that produces and sells a book or paper.
“After many rejections, she finally found a publisher for her first novel.”
publisher is a company.
Latin
publicare — to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use
Old French
publier
Middle English
publicen
English
publish
English, today
publisher
Built from
From publish + -er. publish comes from Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA