…Publishing is the process of producing, issuing, and selling books and magazines in packages to publicize and communicate human ideas. Since ancient times, books have been produced in various forms using various materials such as clay tablets, papyrus, parchment, silk, and paper, and by means of copying and printing, and have been transmitted beyond the constraints of time and space. During this time, even before printing, bookstores that produced, sold, and brokered manuscripts appeared, and from the Middle Ages onwards, publishing activities became more active due to the development of woodblock printing technology in China, Korea, and Japan, and the development of Gutenberg's movable type printing in Europe. However, it was only during the process of social modernization, and especially with the emergence of mass society, that publishing evolved into modern publishing in the sense of actively producing, advertising, and selling on a large scale to an unspecified number of readers. … *Some of the terminology used in reference to the "outright purchase system" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…出版とは人間の思想を公表・伝達するために,パッケージとしての書籍や雑誌を製作,発行,販売する一連の営みのことである。書物は古代以来,粘土板,パピルス,羊皮紙,絹,それに紙など,さまざまな材料を用いて,筆写,印刷などの手段により,さまざまな形態で作られ,時間と空間の制約を超えて伝えられてきた。その間,印刷以前の時代にも,写本の生産,販売,仲介を行う本屋が発生したし,中世以降になると,中国,朝鮮,日本における木版印刷技術の進歩,ヨーロッパにおけるグーテンベルクの活版印刷術の開発によって,出版活動は盛んになったが,出版が不特定多数の読者に対して,見込生産と宣伝,販売を大量かつ積極的に行うという意味で,近代出版に脱皮するのは,社会の近代化の過程においてであり,とくに大衆社会の出現によってである。… ※「買切り制度」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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