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07-17-2007, 09:00 PM
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Mentor
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: South Jersey, USA
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Press or Publisher?
I have been researching a lot of independant publishing companies and small press companies lately and was wondering something, I am sure someone here has the answer...
Why do some companies choose to call themselves press and others publishing company.
For example:
xyz press
or
xyz publishing
or
xyz publishers
is it all just preference of the company, and is there any significance in the structure of the different titles?
thanks guys!
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07-17-2007, 09:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
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When I named my publishing company "Redmond Technology Press" I looked into this same question...
My cursory research indicated that, historically, the word "press" told people that the entity had an actual printing press to produce the books.
Nowadays, however, I think publishers carelessly use the word... i.e., just as I did with my little book publishing venture.
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07-17-2007, 10:51 PM
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Wordsmith
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true... it's just a matter of preference...
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07-18-2007, 12:24 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
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Yeah, what Steve said. And with POD, where there is no press involved at all...it just gets more abstract.
It's like the pen being mightier than the sword...nobody really does much slayijng with either these days.
By the way, there's a word for that... calling a company a "press" or a lounge a "bar" or a man a hired "gun" but I can't remember it. Anybody?
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