What is a publishing company?

What is a publishing company?

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A publishing company is a company whose job it is to find books, to spot books that should be published, and to then make a contract with the author. That is done usually by a literary agent. That publishing contract is negotiated and then made. Then it is the publisher's job to take the book from the raw material that it starts at, all the way through the various stages of publication, of production and design and editing and so forth, until its published.