Publishers  Manufacturers, Traders, Suppliers

Publishers (publish = submit, pre-finance) as companies usually acquire the exclusive right to use the work of an author as stipulated in a publishing contract.Publishers market works of literature (books and magazines), art (pictures), music (sound carriers) or science (non-fiction, textbooks and textbooks) as well as (land) maps, games, directories such as telephone books or forms.The task of publishers is to pre-finance the reproduction and distribution of these media. First of all, the production, preparation of the printing and the printing or pressing of the work is subject to the publisher or is commissioned by him. In addition, there are suitable marketing and sales measures via booksellers or press wholesalers.