The phrase "a sort of publishing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a type or category of publishing that may not fit traditional definitions.
Example: "The rise of digital platforms has led to a sort of publishing that allows anyone to share their work with a global audience."
Alternatives: "a kind of publishing" or "a type of publishing".
It's those who can chip in for those who can't – a sort of cooperative model of publishing".
Tim Ferriss is a 33-year-old Silicon Valley angel investor, consultant, Singularity University advisor, and former entrepreneur who in 2007 published a book called The 4-Hour Workweek; in 2008 won Wired's "Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time" prize; and last month published a sort-of-sequel, The 4-Hour Body.
Then, as a sort of encore, he published a three-page note in September containing the most famous equation of all time: E = mc2.
Nonsense, he replied: he had nothing to be ashamed of; it was the government's efforts to wreck the French economy that people should worry about.In a further twist, the Cour des Comptes, a sort of financial watchdog, published a critical report on how the French state managed its own affairs.
The internet has disrupted all sorts of publishing models and the newspaper industry has been particularly affected.
"We think this is a sort of new paradigm in publishing.
In "A Sort of Genius," a story published in 1937, just months before Pearson died of pneumonia, Thurber revisited an unsolved double murder.
Kirkus Reviews has long prided itself on being a sort of Consumer Reports for the book publishing industry, proclaiming its independence by steadfastly refusing to accept advertising and producing early, plain-spoken reviews that can amplify or smother a new book's early buzz.
"The Silmarillion" was published after Tolkien's death and a lot of the others -- unfinished titles and various other stories of Middle-earth that Christopher made a career out of assembling his father's notes and sort of publishing them as new books.
This predicament was satirized, with apt impiety, by Politiken, the leading Danish newspaper, which, on May 4th, published a sort of "Kierkegaard for Dummies" in cartoon form.
