Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of printing and binding books.
- noun The writing and publishing of books; the act of compiling books.
- noun The act or practice of making a book on a race or other doubtful event. See extract under book-maker, 3.
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Examples
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Just Imagine, Chelmsford, organise author events and book-making sessions.
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This tour of Arion Press in San Francisco showcases one of the last traditional book-making facilities in the United States where all the processes take place under one roof: the hot metal type foundry, letterpress printing facility, and hand bookbinding studio.
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Highlights included demonstration of how a Linotype machine works (magically) and a tour of the underground stacks where books and newspapers that instructors use to illustrate facets of the book-making process are stored.
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Ryan: I've had the comic book-making disease since forever.
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Highlights included demonstration of how a Linotype machine works (magically) and a tour of the underground stacks where books and newspapers that instructors use to illustrate facets of the book-making process are stored.
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This tour of Arion Press in San Francisco showcases one of the last traditional book-making facilities in the United States where all the processes take place under one roof: the hot metal type foundry, letterpress printing facility, and hand bookbinding studio.
Arion Press Tour – Letterpress Printing & Hand Bookbinding 2009
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It was just too expensive for me to work directly with a printer, so I chose another route; I worked with a book-making company that brokered sub-contracted the printing out.
Claudia Ricci: PLEASE DON'T BUY MY NEW NOVEL... Claudia Ricci 2010
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I am awaiting her opinion before I decide whether to tell the book-making company that I won't accept the books.
Claudia Ricci: PLEASE DON'T BUY MY NEW NOVEL... Claudia Ricci 2010
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It was just too expensive for me to work directly with a printer, so I chose another route; I worked with a book-making company that brokered sub-contracted the printing out.
Claudia Ricci: PLEASE DON'T BUY MY NEW NOVEL... Claudia Ricci 2010
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I am awaiting her opinion before I decide whether to tell the book-making company that I won't accept the books.
Claudia Ricci: PLEASE DON'T BUY MY NEW NOVEL... Claudia Ricci 2010
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