This book offers guidelines to emerging and would-be publishers, whether they plan to enter publishing as a career, a sideline, or a diversion. It stresses the business aspects of publishing and emphasizes the major housekeeping functions encountered in the business, except methods of sales and distribution. Contents include "The Mechanics of Publishing," which explores such details as the budget, subsidiary rights, copyright protection, inventory control, and operating statements, and "Accounting Guidelines in Publishing," which is divided into sections on "Statements" and "Budgets." The first section considers balance sheets, profit and loss statement, source and application of funds, and supplementary schedules, and the second section outlines budgetary matters. Several forms commonly used in publishing are appended. (RB)