Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Ex-lib: Ex-Library copy, a book once held in library. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Not to be confused with Ex Libris. Ex Libris: From the library of, referring to previous owner—often found on bookplates .
Buckram variety swatches that can be used to cover books. Library binding can be divided into the two major categories of "original" and "after market". The original category is as it says: the book was originally bound with the idea that it would be used in a library setting where the book would receive harder use than those usual trade editions sold to the public.
Library binding refers to the hardcover binding of books intended for the rigors of library use and are largely serials and paperback publications. Though many publishers have started to provide "library binding" editions, many libraries elect to purchase paperbacks and have them rebound in hard covers for longer life.
The digital book format used by the digital library company Chaoxing Digital Library (超星数字图书馆) [31] in China. It is a proprietary raster image compression and binding format, with reading time OCR plug-in modules.
This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.
In publishing, a colophon (/ ˈ k ɒ l ə f ən,-f ɒ n /) [1] is a brief statement containing information about the publication of a book such as an "imprint" (the place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication). [2] A colophon may include the device [2]: 69 of a printer or publisher.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
A prebound book is a book that was previously bound and has been rebound with a library quality hardcover binding. In almost all commercial cases, the book in question began as a paperback version. An alternate term is "Library Hardcover Paperback".