What types of books are there?

Books are divided by subject into: social science and natural science books.

Divided according to genre: Chinese books and foreign language books.

Divided according to purpose: general books and reference books.

People have realized from practice that these recorded materials can be transformed into tools for summarizing experience and imparting knowledge. As a result, works appeared specifically for imparting knowledge and for people to read. In this way, the word book has acquired a newer and narrower meaning.

Later on, any written record that did not have the purpose of disseminating experience, imparting knowledge, and being read by others was not considered a book; with the development of productivity and the progress of society, people began to consciously use words to Propaganda of ideas and dissemination of knowledge also gradually formed a system of books, and documents for handling daily affairs formed a system of documents. As a result, books and archives were gradually distinguished.

Extended information

After experiencing a slight decline in 2009, the sales volume of my country's book industry returned to double-digit growth in 2010, with industry sales revenue reaching 67.293 billion yuan. At the same time, industry profits reached 3.177 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 43.71%.

The "Analysis Report on the Development Scale and Industry Enterprise Development of China's Teaching Aids Book Industry from 2014 to 2018" shows that by 2015, the number of book publishing varieties in China will increase to 419,000, and the total number of books published will be Increase to 7.92 billion copies, the total number of newspapers published will increase to 55.23 billion, and the total number of periodicals published will increase to 4.22 billion.

The per capita annual number of books will rise to 5.8 per person, the number of daily copies per 1,000 people will reach 100.6 per 1,000 people, and the national comprehensive reading rate will increase to 80.0%. This indicates that demand in the book industry will grow steadily, and industry sales are expected to continue to expand.

In the context of educational publishers transforming into educational resource service providers, the connotation and extension of my country's educational supplementary newspapers and periodicals market have become increasingly enriched. There are more than 100 teaching aid newspapers and periodicals in our country, including about 40 in English and more than 20 in Chinese and mathematics.

In investigations in Wuhan, Taiyuan, Chongqing and other places, it was found that the development of these teaching aid newspapers and periodicals has entered a trend of becoming more and more powerful, and their relationship with teaching aid book publishers and teaching aid websites Profound changes have begun to occur and we are facing the challenge of transforming to quality education.