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• Packagers :
• Packaging : A publishing strategy in which a third party assembles all of the content necessary for publication into final form prior to delivery to the publisher. Packaging can also include any necessary manufacturing steps.
• Packing :
• Page [Logical] : The content contained on a single side of a single leaf of a book.
• Page layout :
• Page [Physical] :
• Page proofs :
• Pagination guide :
• PalmOS :
• Pamphlets :
• Paper :
• Paperback :
• Paper buying : Purchasing of paper for printing operations.
• Paper grade :
• Paper, Print and Bind :
• Paragraph :
• Part : The highest level of grouping of content within a book. A Part will generally contain multiple chapters.
• Pay per use model :
• PDA :
• PDF-based format :
• Pension :
• Perfect binding :
• Performance rights :
• Performing :
• Periodic delivery :
• Permissions [Rights] : A minor grant of rights on a non-exclusive basis generally to allow the use of an excerpt in another publication.
• Permissions [Function] :
• Personal computer :
• Photocopying : see Copying
• Photograph :
• Photogravure printing :
• Physical book component :
• Physical medium :
• Picking :
• Piracy :
• Pirate radio :
• Planning and budgeting :
• Plant Costs :
• Platen presses :
• Plate Costs : see Plant Costs
• Plate write-off :
• Platform :
• Plays :
• POD : Digital printing used in book publishing for short print runs (as low as runs of a single unit). POD printing is used for pre-publication of galleys, for life-of-print printing where traditional prining would be excessively expensive, or end-of-life titles where demand is low and the cost of carrying inventory isn't justified.
• Poetry [Genre] :
• PP&B : see Paper, Print and Bind
• Preface :
• Pre-Kindergarten :
• Print [Format] : Books and content published in ink on paper formats
• Printer :
• Printing : Printing and binding of complete books.
• Printing Form : see Signature
• Printing Technology :
• Print buying : Acquiring printed books from printers.
• Print [End user rights] :
• Print order :
• Print production :
• Print [Rights] :
• Process Color :
• Production : The stages of the publishing process from essential completion of the editorial content through initial publication.
• Production services :
• Production Technology :
• Productivity Improvement : Projects undertaken to increase the amount of output that can be generated by a given number of people.
• Product Development : The process of bringing a new product from concept to market. This can range from commissioning a title for print publication to creating a large-scale digital platform for a reference or other work.
• Professional Books : see Professional Publishing
• Professional Book Clubs :
• Professional Education Institutions : Institutions providing trade and para-professional education.These can also be called "Career" or "For Profit" post-secondary institutions.
• Professional Publishing :
• Profit-and-loss statement : see Operating statement
• Project management : Trafficking and management of production schedules
• Project planning and scheduling : Determining the overall schedule of a project relative to date of publication.
• Promotion :
• Proofreading : The reading and markup of typeset pages to identify errors that have been introduced during various production steps. These will be corrected in the various correction passes.
• Proofs : see Page proofs
• Prose :
• Publicity :
• Public library : A library associated with a town or city.
• Public radio :
• Public relations :
• Publisher :
• Publishers Weekly :
• Publishing Functions : The major activities of a publishing concern.
• Publishing house : see Publisher
• Publishing transactions :
• PUBNET :
• Purchase model :
• Purchase Order :
• Putaway :