A publication refers to a published product with a certain material form, which stores knowledge and information for the purpose of communication. The published products mainly include e-books, books, documents, novels, poems, newspapers, periodicals, original literature, educational publications, maps, digital music, online animation, games, database publications, mobile phone publications (MMS, ringtones, mobile phone newspapers, mobile phone periodicals, mobile phone novels, mobile phone games) and so on.
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Publishing, or publishing, refers to the act of making a work public in any way. In most countries, once a work is completed, whether it is published or not, it enjoys copyright. A publication refers to a work that has obtained an international standard book number and is printed into a book by a publishing institution with certain qualifications; Publications whose contents are presented in digital form are called electronic publications or e-books.
The production or industrial field dominated by publishing is called publishing industry. Public publications with a large number of copies or the same scale of communication are collectively referred to as publishing.
The concept of publishing in the professional qualification examination of publishing qualification in China is: publishing refers to the activity of editing, copying and distributing works to the public. Works are the premise of publication, editing and copying are the means, and publishing to the public is the purpose.
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