According to the language, it is divided into Chinese and foreign languages.
Divided into: ordinary books and reference books according to their uses.
People realize from practice that these recorded materials can be turned into tools to sum up experience and impart knowledge. Therefore, works aimed at imparting knowledge and being read by people have appeared. In this way, the word book has gained a relatively new and narrow meaning.
Later, any written record that is not aimed at spreading experience, imparting knowledge and reading for people is not a book; With the development of productive forces and social progress, people began to consciously use words to publicize ideas and spread knowledge. At the same time, the book system was gradually formed, and the documents dealing with daily affairs formed a document system. As a result, books and archives gradually separated.
Extended data
After a slight decline in 2009, the sales scale of China book industry returned to double-digit growth rate in 20 10, and the industry sales revenue reached 67.293 billion yuan. At the same time, the industry profit reached 365,438+77 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 43.7438+0%.
The Analysis Report on the Development Scale of Teaching and Auxiliary Books Industry and Enterprises in China in 20 14-20 18 shows that by 20 15, the number of books published in China will increase to 4 19000, the total print run of books will increase to 7.92 billion and the total print run of newspapers will increase to 5.92 billion.
The annual collection of books per capita rose to 5.8 copies per person, the daily newspaper per thousand people reached 0.6 copies per thousand people100, and the national comprehensive reading rate increased to 80.0%. This shows that the demand of the book industry will grow steadily and the sales scale of the industry is expected to continue to expand.
Under the background of the transformation from educational publishing house to educational resource service provider, the connotation and extension of China supplementary newspapers and periodicals market are increasingly rich. There are more than 65,438+000 supplementary newspapers and periodicals in China, including about 40 in English, 20 in Chinese and 20 in mathematics.
In Wuhan, Taiyuan, Chongqing and other places, it is found that the development of these supplementary newspapers and periodicals has stepped into the trend of co-production with others, and the relationship with supplementary books publishing houses and websites has begun to undergo profound changes, facing the challenge of transforming into quality education.