The weight of genuine books and pirated books is different. Genuine books use ordinary paper, which is relatively heavy, while pirated books use inferior paper, which is relatively light.

2. Print:

Genuine books and pirated books are different in printing. Genuine books are beautifully printed and brightly colored, while pirated books are rough, dim and even blurred.

3. Price:

The prices of genuine books and pirated books are also different. Genuine books are sold through formal channels, and the cost is high, so the price is high, while pirated books have few business links, low cost and much lower price.

4, typo:

When reading a book, you can distinguish between genuine and pirated books by looking for typos. There are almost no typos in genuine books, but there are many typos in pirated books, and the same typos will appear in many places.

5. Impact on the normal publishing industry:

Unauthorized printing of pirated books may have an advantage over genuine books in price, thus causing a great impact on the normal publishing industry. If management is lacking, it will be extremely harmful and can completely destroy a country's publishing industry.

6. Intellectual property rights:

According to international standards, intellectual property rights are very important. If a country is flooded with piracy, it will be despised by the international community and think that you are a country that does not attach importance to intellectual property rights, which will affect the national image.

Extended data

Distinguish between genuine and pirated books;

1, visual cover

Look at the cover first, which can be observed from the aspects of color, clarity, quality of cover paper, book binding and so on.

Specifically, pirated books generally have bright cover colors and muddy handwriting. The cover paper is thin and the offset glue overflows. Hardcover books may lack a plug cloth (plug cloth: silk cotton strip cloth with a tightly woven ridge at one end). Stick it on both ends of the spine to protect the spine incision and increase the aesthetic feeling of the book. ) or without front and rear ring linings.

Step 2 review the text

As we all know, open a page and read the last paragraph carefully. If you find many others, you can basically judge that the book in your hand is pirated. This is the method that most people are using to identify pirated books, and it is also the most intuitive method.

3. Look at the copyright page carefully

The copyright page is usually on the back of the title page, or at the end of the text, with CIP data printed on it. It is relatively simple to check whether the ISBN of the copyright page is consistent with the barcode on the back cover, and the inconsistency is generally piracy.

There are also inferior pirated books with no copyright pages at all. It is excluded that the copyright page of a set of books is divided into several volumes, and the barcode is in the first volume or the last volume, but at this time the set of books must have the same title and ISBN.

4. Buy books through formal channels

For example, Xinhua Bookstore, all regular network distributors can buy genuine books.