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Book classification

Books can be divided in many ways from various angles. For example:

According to the function, there are monographs, papers, teaching materials, reference books, information books and so on.

According to the content of subject knowledge, there are political reading, economic reading, literary reading, artistic reading, scientific reading and so on.

According to disciplines, there are books on social science and natural science.

According to genre, there are Chinese and foreign languages.

There are ordinary books and reference books according to their uses.

It can also be classified from the perspectives of readers and binding forms, and each category can be subdivided into many small categories.

Characteristics of books

The main feature of the publishing mode of books is "discontinuous publishing", that is, they can't be published one after another with a fixed name that is only distinguished by serial numbers, and they pay attention to systematicness and stability in content, that is, they should generally form an independent carrier according to a certain theme and structure, and have long-term effect, and can be reprinted or republished.

Books can be composed of one work, multiple works by the same author, or multiple works by multiple authors, while newspapers and periodicals are composed of different works by multiple authors.