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/ˈpʌblɪʃər/ · /ˈpʌblɪʃə/
A person or a company whose business is to arrange for books, newspapers, magazines etc to be written, made, and sold.
出版社；出版商
複數 publishers
核心畫面
You can think of the publisher as the one who takes something written and carries it out to the public — deciding what gets written, paying for it to be edited and printed, and putting it where people can buy it. Not the writer, and not the shop: the party in between who makes the book exist as a thing on sale.
可以想成：作者把稿子寫出來，書店把書賣出去，而 publisher 站在中間——決定哪一本值得做、出錢請人編輯校對、…更多收起
可以想成：作者把稿子寫出來，書店把書賣出去，而 publisher 站在中間——決定哪一本值得做、出錢請人編輯校對、安排印刷、把書鋪到通路上。他做的事可以總結成一句：把寫好的東西送到公眾面前。這個角色可以是一家公司（出版社），也可以是一個人（自己出書的出版者）；報紙、雜誌同樣有 publisher。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
publishernoun/ˈpʌblɪʃɚ/
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A person or (especially) a company who publishes, especially books.
- All a publisher has to do is write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work.
- 2
computingengineeringmathematicsA system or component that allows other components (subscribers) to receive notifications of something, such as an event.
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ChristianityA preacher who is a Jehovah's Witness.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。