Wiktionary
n. A company that produces books, magazines, brochures and other texts in print or electronic form.
WordNet
n. a firm in the publishing business [syn: publisher, publishing firm, publishing company]
Usage examples of "publishing house".
Using you to get me inside a big New York publishing house so I can get my invention developed.
The animal-loving lady agreed: they should go, they should hurry, she trusted a gentleman from a publishing house that published poetry, she herself was a great admirer of Khalil Gibran.
I 'm just saying what a lunatic is from the point of view of a publishing house.
I've already decided which London publishing house would best represent my interests.
A serious New York publishing house is launching his book in the fall, and I anticipate it will bring him wealth and acclaim.
But my agent sold my soul to a publishing house that builds fiction giants, not literary little people.
As I write this, he is again serving as an editor, this time as science fiction consultant for a large soft-cover book publishing house.
At the last moment I realized I had forgotten to identify the publishing house.
Perhaps he was fearful ofhis author's reputation and by implication the good nameof the entire publishing house.
If you want to go to another publishing house, all right, I won't hold you.
This typescript was eventually seen by Susan Dagnall, an Oxford graduate working for the London publishing house of Allen &.
Luckily, Peter had soldIceberg to Nick Austin at Sphere, a small publishing house in London, for, I believe, about four hundred dollars.