Publication of novel's followed by book and film (9)
I believe the answer is:
newssheet
'publication of novel's' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'followed by book and film' is the wordplay.
'followed by' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'book' becomes 'ews' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and').
'film' becomes 'sheet' (I've seen this before).
'ews' after 'n' is 'news'.
'news'+'sheet'='NEWSSHEET'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for newssheet that I've seen before include "Basic daily paper" , "Simple journal" .)