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| Publishing is the industry concerned with
the production and dissemination of literature or information –
the activity of making information available for public view. In some
cases, authors may be their own publishers. Traditionally, the term refers to the distribution of printed works such as books and newspapers. With the advent of digital information systems and the Internet, the scope of publishing has expanded to include electronic resources, such as the electronic versions of books and periodicals, as well as websites, blogs, and the like. Publishing includes the stages of the development, acquisition, marketing, production – printing and distribution of newspapers, magazines, books, literary works, musical works, software and other works dealing with information, including the electronic media . Printing is a process for production of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing. |
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| The printing press is a mechanical printing
device for making copies of identical text on multiple sheets of paper.
It was invented in Germany by the goldsmith and printer Johannes Gutenberg
in ca. 1447. Printing methods based on Gutenberg's printing press
spread rapidly throughout first Europe and then the rest of the world,
replacing most block printing and making it the sole progenitor of
modern movable type printing. Printing's effect on civilization has
often been discussed in terms of the effect of the "printing
press" on civilization—a rhetorical device, which alludes
to the pivotal role of the printing press in the global spread of
printing. Movable type printing, which allowed individual characters to be arranged to form words, is a separate invention from the printing press. In what is regarded as an independent invention, movable type printing as we know it today was invented in Germany by Gutenberg in the 1440s, although the first known invention was in China by Bi Sheng between 1041 and 1048. A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging, usually on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number of additional guest services such as a restaurant, a swimming pool or childcare. Some hotels have conference services and meeting rooms and encourage groups to hold conventions and meetings at their location. |
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