Book Binding

An e-book (for electronic book: also ebook: also ecobook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computer, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices. An e-book is a...

Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a book by the nature of its binding. The cover of such books are usually made of paper or cardboard, and are usually held together with glue rather than stitch or staple. Paperback editions of books are issued...

This article is about entertainment packaging. For theatrical sets, see box set (theatre). A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is a compilation of various musical recordings, film, television program, or other collection of related things that are...

A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather). They may have flexible sewn spines which allow the book to lie flat on a surface when opened, although...

A mass market paperback (MMP) is a small, non-illustrated, and relatively cheap version of a book, usually coming out after the hardback and often sold in non-traditional bookselling locations such as airport and supermarket, as well as in traditional bookselling...

A trade paperback (TPB, sometimes referred to as a trade paper edition) is a paperback book that is the same size as the hardcover edition. That is, the text pages are identical to the text pages in the hardcover edition, and the only difference is the binding. Trade...

Chapbook is a generic term to cover a particular genre of pocket-sized booklet, popular from the sixteenth through to the later part of the nineteenth century. No exact definition can be applied. Chapbook can mean anything that would have formed part of the stock of...

In comics, a trade paperback (TPB or simply trade) specifically refers to a collection of stories originally published in comic books reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or...

Jewelled bookbinding were known in the Middle Ages, covering important liturgical and devotional works for Popes and Kings. The vast majority of these were later destroyed as their jewels were removed by vandals. Some still exist - see major libraries - the Morgan...

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the file format created by Adobe Systems, in 1993, for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a device-independent and display resolution-independent fixed-layout document format. Each PDF file...