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This includes acquiring the initial material, helping to develop it into its best and most marketable form, overseeing and providing any graphic design it needs, producing a finished product, distributing that product to vendors, and marketing that product so that the vendors can sell it quickly. While some publishing companies today are parts of large corporations, others are small independent businesses. There are also boutique publishing houses that specialize in certain types of materials, micro-publishers who may only release one or two products a year, and print-on-demand publishing companies that work with self publishers on a subsidized payment system and only expend the cost of printing material once it has been ordered and paid for.