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==Privishing== '''Privishing''' (''priv''ate publ''ishing'', but not to be confused with [[self-publishing]]) is a modern term for publishing a book but printing so few copies or with such lack of marketing, advertising, or sales support that it effectively does not reach the public.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0711-05.htm |title=Journalists Thrown 'Into the Buzzsaw' |last=Winkler |first=David |date=11 July 2002 |publisher=CommonDreams.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804080018/http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0711-05.htm |archive-date=4 August 2007 }}</ref> The book, while nominally published, is almost impossible to obtain through normal channels such as bookshops, often cannot be ordered specially, and has a notable lack of support from its publisher, including refusal to reprint the title. A book that is privished may be referred to as "killed." Depending on the motivation, privishing may constitute a [[breach of contract]], [[censorship]],<ref>{{cite journal |title = Making censorship backfire |journal = [[Counterpoise]] |volume = 7 |date = July 2003 |url = http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/03counterpoise.html |author = Sue Curry Jansen |author2 = Brian Martin |author2-link = Brian Martin (social scientist) |access-date = 28 May 2010 |archive-date = 19 June 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100619085756/http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/03counterpoise.html |url-status = live }}</ref> or good business practice (e.g., not printing more books than the publisher believes will sell in a reasonable length of time).
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