The purpose of book publishing is to impart knowledge, not the latest information. The essence of publishing is inheritance, and the purpose of publishing is communication. It is the mission and task of academic publishing to actively build a discipline system, an academic system and a discourse system.
From the definition analysis of publishing specialty, the three basic elements of publishing are editing and processing, mass reproduction and wide dissemination. Publishing activities must consist of three elements: editing, copying and distribution, which are indispensable and closely related.
The key to distinguish publishing activities is to see whether they conform to these three interrelated elements. Generally speaking, unedited works can be copied and circulated, but they are not publishing activities; A copy of an unedited or published work is not a publishing activity; Unedited distribution is not a publishing activity.
Book introduction:
Books are the main tools used by human beings to record all their achievements, and also the important media for human beings to blend their feelings, acquire knowledge and inherit their experiences, which has made great contributions to the development of human civilization. At all times, people always give the highest affirmation and special care to books.
Books still have broad and narrow meanings. In real life, we are often late for some interesting phenomena: for the concepts of "library" and "library and information work", "book" is a broad sense, which refers to all kinds of reading materials, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, epigraphy rubbings, hand scrolls, contemporary publications, newspapers, and even new technology products such as audio-visual materials, simple emblems (volumes) and machine-readable catalogues.
In the practical work of library and information institutions, people should compare books with periodicals, newspapers, scientific and technological reports, technical standards, audio-visual materials, microforms and so on. , but there are differences.