What is the relationship between book companies, publishing houses and printing houses? What is the general process of publishing a book?

Well, the publishing house is a publishing right unit legally approved by our country and has a book number. The people of the whole country should use the publishing house number for normal publishing. At present, only 582 publishing houses in China have been approved.

It is because there are few publishing houses and the market is monopolized that most of them are a little lazy and unwilling to take risks, and the published books can't meet the market demand, so a large number of private book enterprises are also publishing. At present, most of the books on the bestseller list are planned by private companies. However, private enterprises do not have the right to publish, and they must buy the ISBN from the publishing house before publishing, just as private enterprises bought the production batch number from state-owned enterprises in the past. Except for buying ISBN, the business of book companies is basically the same as that of publishing houses.

The printing factory is relatively clear, with different professional division of labor, and the printing profit is relatively thin. Books arranged by general publishing houses or private companies should be printed by printing houses, which is the relationship between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.

Of course, sometimes the publishing house contacts the printing house, and sometimes the private company contacts directly to see the two sides negotiate.

When a book is published, the author submits (or edits) the manuscript. After the manuscript is completed, it is submitted to the Editorial Committee for examination and approval (if the manuscript has passed), then typesetting, editing, editing, publishing, printing, binding, and then it can be sold.