Synonyms:
publisher, publishing_house, publishing_firm, publishing_company
Meaning: a firm in the publishing business
Synonyms:
publisher
Meaning: a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music
Usage examples
The same year he began his "History of the Civil War" for a Hartford publisher.
There are no canons to direct his own mind, and no canons that coerce the reader's judgment or the publisher's.
The plain paper or buckram covers of a good publisher are, in fact, more decorative, because more artistic, than showy tree-calf or "antique morocco."
From earliest childhood he had determined to be a printer; so, when eleven years of age, he walked nine miles to see the publisher of a newspaper, and obtain a situation.
It was here, too, that his stereotyped prologue to his digressions--"That reminds me"--became popular, and even reached England, where a publisher so entitled a joke-book.
This honour, however, gave Kepler no satisfaction--it rather occasioned him dismay, especially as it deprived him of all pecuniary benefit, and made it almost impossible for him to get a publisher to undertake another book.
The authorship of this book was never revealed until after the death of Robert Chambers, a few years since, it became known that this publisher, whom no one would ever have suspected of holding such heterodox theories, had actually written it.