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Publishing

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Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University

Language: English Studies in English
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: www.anglia.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Publishing
Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public. In some cases, authors may be their own publishers, meaning originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display the content for the same. Also, the word publisher can refer to the individual who leads a publishing company or an imprint or to a person who owns/heads a magazine.
Publishing
It is an axiom in the publishing business, however, that pseudoscience will always sell more books than the real science that debunks it.
Robert L. Park, Voodoo Science (2000), p. 177
Publishing
If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel, Book VI, Chapter XIV.
Publishing
Publish or perish.
A phrase used to describe the pressure in academia to rapidly and continuously publish academic work.
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