Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and 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.

Traditionally, the term refers to the distribution of printed works such as books (the "book trade") and newspapers. With the advent of digital information systems and the Internet, the scope of publishing has expanded to include electronic resources such as the electronic versions of books and periodicals, as well as micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishers, and the like.

Publishing includes the following stages of development: acquisition, copy editing, production, printing (and its electronic equivalents), and marketing and distribution.

Publish2

Publish2 is a Virginia-based startup that is a leader in collaborative journalism. It launched in private beta in 2007 and received an initial $2.75 million round of financing in March 2008. Its initial product was the Link Newswire, which introduced link journalism, an idea pioneered by P2 co-founder Scott Karp. The Link Newswire is used by an estimated 10,000 American journalists and is featured the websites of The New York Times and the Spokesman Review, among others.

On May 24, 2010, P2 announced News Exchange, which seeks to disrupt the Associated Press by creating a true co-op. Publish2 is a finalist at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

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