Publications (books, articles, etc.) are artifacts that carry texts. The production of such artifacts requires complex editing processes, calling upon different types of skills and tools. The object we called book is not so simple, it's the result of thousand years of research and development. Create, shape, make, produce and distribute artifacts like a book is very complex: a lot of steps is necessary from the first letters to the final object. This communication is dedicated to understand what happen to the text during theses steps, and how the technique create some meaning during editorial processes.