SIC CODES

SIC Code: Division 58

Information about Division 58: Publishing activities

Division 58

Hierarchy of Division 58

  • Section JInformation and communication
  • Division 58Publishing activities

Groups inside Division 58

  • Group 581Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing activities
  • Group 582Software publishing

List of terms related whith SIC Code 58

What activities does the Division 58 contain?

This division includes the publishing of books, brochures, leaflets, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, atlases, maps and charts; publishing of newspapers, journals and periodicals; directory and mailing list and other publishing, as well as software publishing.

Publishing includes the acquisition of copyrights to content (information products) and making this content available to the general public by engaging in (or arranging for) the reproduction and distribution of this content in various forms.

All the feasible forms of publishing (in print, electronic or audio form, on the Internet, as multimedia products such as CD-ROM reference books etc.), except publishing of motion pictures, are included in this division.

This division excludes the publishing of motion pictures, video tapes and movies on DVD or similar media (division 59) and the production of master copies for records or audio material (division 59).

Also excluded are printing (see 1811) and the mass reproduction of recorded media (see 1820).