Printing times, Chinese words, pronunciation yìn cì, refers to the number of times each edition of the book is printed.
Edition refers to the number of important changes in the content of the edition indicated on the copyright page of the book, which is different from the printing number. There is no difference between the version number and the printing number before the founding of the People's Republic of China. No matter whether the content of the book has changed or not, every time it is printed, it is regarded as a version. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the General Administration of Publishing promulgated the Regulations on Book Version Records, which separated edition from printing.
The edition number is used to count the important changes of the edition content: the book published at the 1 th time is called the 1 edition or the first edition, and the book published after a large increase or deletion is called the second edition, and so on. When a book is reprinted, if the content has not changed or only slightly changed, it will not be reprinted, that is, the version will not change. If the title, format, binding, cover and publishing house of the same book change, the version will remain unchanged. In this way, the edition with important changes in the contents of the statistical edition is completely separated from the printing number of statistical printing times, and readers can choose according to the edition when buying or reading books.
Detailed explanation of printing times: the number of times each version of the book is printed. Count continuously from the first printing of the first edition. If the content is reprinted after major modification, the cumulative number of exhibitions will still be calculated.