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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: Albanese, Andrew (20 Jul 2023). "DPLA Launches 'Geo-targeted' Banned Book Club via Palace E-book App". Publishers Weekly. Phillips, Angus; Bhaskar, Michael, eds. (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Publishing. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794202.001.0001. ISBN  978-0-1918-3580-3.

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The article was originally heavily written in regard to book publishing, containing a lengthy section on acquisition, contract, royalty breakdowns and so on. It has been revised to be more general but still is swayed towards book publishing.

In the revision, sourced, well-written and useful information has been wholesale deleted. The linked article history of books does not cover book publishing in detail as this article did.

For example, slush pile has an article and is known as part of book publishing. But does not appear in history of books or here. The article notes publishing traditionally relates to books and a few other things but then the section on books is significantly cut down.

Someone trying to find an unbiased overview of the publishing process cannot find it on wikipedia at the moment. The role of agents, book packagers, slush pile, the tie-in of movies from books and how it fits into the world of entertainment and larger culture.

Essentially, there are various articles on parts of book publishing (paperbacks, intellectual property, tie-in/licensed publishing) but as a whole, book publishing doesn't have a comprehensive article covering it.

The eBook/epublishing article is exhaustive and detailed but this one is quite sparse.

I'm thinking there should be a book publishing article that could salvage deleted material from this one.

If the intent of the publishing article is to be shorter and mainly a portal to different types of publishing then perhaps subsections should have less info but a link to a longer article.