publisher
The publisher is the director of a publishing house for books, magazines, newspapers, music notes, calendars or other media products. He is the owner or managing director of the publisher in its entirety. The publisher ultimately decides which publications a publisher invests, not only for the production and reproduction of the medium, but also for its distribution, for which he has committed himself in the publishing contract with a writer and what he has to take care of. The publisher bears the financial responsibility and determines the guidelines for proofreading, production and distribution. According to Fritz J. Raddatz, the chief publisher and deputy head of the Rowohlt publishing house from 1960 to 1969, "the true publisher ... must be father and mother, nurse and breeder, creditor and supporter, duellant and secondary, confessor and ministrant, saint and Hurenbold. He must have the brain of a philosopher, the look of a radiologist, the gentleness of a nurse, one thing he must not have: his own life. "Previously, the publisher was the publisher.