Publishing

Us Brits, have one of the best book industries in the world. We're also true book lovers, forever shoveling book after book into our ever expanding minds, whether its a good solid book in the grasp of our hands, an eBook on one of them new-fangled kindles or an audio book as we go for our morning jog or commute to work. We love books, our nation is home to some of the best fiction (an honourable few- Bram Stoker, Erin Hunter, Mary Shelley) and non fiction (Joy&George Adamson, Philippa Gregory and Juliet Gardiner) authors in the world. And this imagination and skill of jotting down these events have now given us one of the worlds leading Book industries at an amazing worth of £4.5 Billion GBP, generating more worth than music, TV and film at this time.
Of course with in the book industries there's smaller groups, publishing houses, illustrators, authors, editors, and us the public, who decide, what book we want the most and the style we want it in, whether that would  be Paperback, Hardback, eBook or Audio. The British public generates 60% of the British Book industries worth as it happens.
If you where to work within the book industry, would you want to work in the print rooms, making sure that the machinery put the book together in the correct order? Nahhh, you'd want to be where the fun stuff is, illustrating the actual story inside of the book or creating the front cover- the one thing that gets the consumer to pick it up off the shelf in the store in the first place.
I would much prefer to work illustrating the interior! How about you?
With a book, you can read it, get to know the character, whether animal or human you start to visualize them in your head and from there you can put it too paper and help create a best selling masterpiece.
Publishing isn't just tied into Books, look at Newspapers and Magazines.

Harper collins is my favorite publishing house (bias because they published my favorite series- Warriors)
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/