commercial publisher

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commercial
adjective
uk
/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/us
/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
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publisher
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpʌb.lɪ.ʃər/us
/ˈpʌb.lɪ.ʃɚ/
an organization that publishes text ...
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(Definition ofcommercialandpublisherfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommercial publisher

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With the exception of a few commercial publishers of large-print and audio books, most publishers find it uneconomic to make accessible copies of works available to visually impaired people.
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He then set out to publish his brothers poetry, which had been largely ignored by commercial publishers.
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However, the institutional subscription prices for journals published by many academic society publishers exhibit similar inflationary patterns as seen among commercial publishers.
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Experts work for hire, although review would undoubtedly be accomplished in-house by the sponsoring organization, whether university unit orcommercialpublisher.
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They may publish anything from two to 12 volumes in the year, volumes of poetry which nocommercialpublisherwould think of publishing.
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We are not talking about looking for acommercialpublisherfor the report.
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She then went in search of acommercialpublisher, without success.
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The book was later reissued by acommercialpublisherunder a slightly revised title.
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Colleagues urged him to find acommercialpublisher.
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The firm was a generalcommercialpublisher, with a specialist area of natural history, and also published periodicals.
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Its members are professional writers who must have published at least one book through acommercialpublisher.
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But from the sixteenth century, various books published by commercial publishers went into the collections of schools in developed areas.
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This was made necessary when he learned that nocommercialpublisher, due to the political temper of the times, would undertake the publication or distribution of the book.
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I am not aware of any concern on the part of commercial publishers.
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Nowadays careers literature comes from a wide variety of sources, including industrial and professional institutions, commercial publishers and specialist organisations.
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As a result, commercial publishers make only a small contribution per copy produced.
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And where they are published by commercial publishers, of course, the position is the same.
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We do not talk about commercial publishers, or commercial newspapers, or commercial films, although they all have to pay their bills and make both ends meet.
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