Whois & Analysis for publishersweekly.com

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, “The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling".

With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews.

Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.

People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookwomen, or bookmen.

The founding of libraries in 300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers.

In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade.

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.

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other materials, fastened together to hinge at one side, with text and/or images printed in ink.

A single sheet within a book is a leaf, and each side of a leaf is a page.

A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format for reading on a computer screen, smartphone or e-reader device is known as an electronic book, or e-book.

Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods.

Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists.