The craft, business, or process of manufacturing, publishing, or producing books; also, the illegal or legal practice of taking bets.
Gerund form of 'bookmaker,' from 'book' and 'making' (from Old English 'making'). Can refer to either traditional book production or the bookmaking of sports betting.
The art of bookmaking—choosing paper, designing layouts, binding pages—is actually having a renaissance as people rediscover the tactile joy of physical books after centuries of increasingly efficient mass production.
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