What is a Trade Publication?

There is a broad meaning. In a broad sense, it refers to the publishing enterprise units (publishing, printing, and distribution industries), publishing institutions (publishing education, research departments), and publishing administrative agencies. The "Instructions on the Reform and Development of the National Publishing Industry" issued by the State Council of the People's Republic of China in October 1950 dealt with both the development of publishing enterprises and the strengthening of the management of the entire publishing industry by the state administration. The publishing industry reflects the achievements of human civilization through the publication and distribution of books and periodicals, and disseminates social thought, culture, science and technology. In the narrow sense, it refers to the edition enterprise.

Publishing business

The publishing undertaking has a broad meaning. In a broad sense, it refers to the general version of the business unit (publishing,

In capitalist countries, the publishing industry is generally called "publishing industry", "publisher", etc., and the concept of "publishing enterprise" is rarely used. The "Publishing Industry" in Japan's "Publications" states that: "Publishing industry refers to the profit-making enterprises that use publishing as a regular business, and non-profits cannot be called publishing." To include journalism in the publishing industry. This entry also sometimes uses the concept of "publishing business", such as "except

The contemporary publishing industries of different countries have similarities in their organizational forms and operating methods. But in terms of ownership, there is a qualitative difference between socialist countries and capitalist countries. In capitalist countries, with the exception of individual government-sponsored publishing units (such as the Library of Congress, which is responsible for the publication of government documents in the United States), regardless of size, the vast majority are private capitalist publishing industries. In socialist countries, the vast majority of the publishing industry is state-run, and a few are collectively operated. China adopts a system of professional division of publishing, printing, and distribution. Publishing houses are state-owned and local state-owned; printing plants have some small-scale collective-owned printing plants in addition to the state-owned; the publishing industry uses state-owned Xinhua Bookstores as the main channel, supplemented by publishing houses' own distribution and collective management Bookstores, as well as the self-employed bookstores, which have become quite common, form a distribution network that spans urban and rural areas.