The publishing house lacks market confidence in the author's manuscript, or the author is unwilling to hand over his book to the publishing house for distribution, and the relevant publishing house will undertake the publishing behavior of editing, proofreading, printing or partial distribution.
It is the author's responsibility to publish at his own expense. The publishing house obtains a small amount of publishing profits from the publishing fees paid by the author, such as acting as an agent for the author, and also obtains some distribution profits. Self-funded publishing exists at home and abroad, and most of the self-funded publishing work is undertaken by private publishing houses.
Self-funded publications are also official publications approved by relevant state departments, and the contents are edited into publications. Generally divided into topic selection, submission, editing, publishing, printing and distribution.
Extended data
Digital publishing is the digital inheritance of human culture. It is a new publishing industry based on computer technology, communication technology, network technology, streaming media technology, storage technology and display technology. , integrating and surpassing the traditional publishing content.
In the whole publishing process, digital publishing stores all information in the form of unified binary code in CD-ROM, disk and other media, and processes and receives the information with the help of computers or terminal equipment.
It emphasizes the digitalization of content, production mode and operation flow, communication carrier, reading consumption and learning form. Although China's digital publishing started late, it has developed rapidly, and has now formed new formats such as online books and online periodicals.
Mobile publishing belongs to the category of digital publishing and is an important benchmark for the transformation from traditional digital publishing to intelligent digital publishing. It is also based on the popularity of mobile networks and smart mobile devices, combined with Internet technology, computer technology and streaming media.
Advanced technologies such as cloud storage are publishing forms that organize, optimize and process original copyrighted content, and the main way for users to present them is mobile app (software application).
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Publishing
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-self-publishing