A collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually tied together to hinge at one side is called book. Books may also refer to a literature work, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a Monograph, to distinguish it form serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or new spapers.
A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile, a Bibliophilist, or a Philobiblist, or more informally, a bookworm. A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or book shop. the first books used parchment or vellum[ calf skin] for the pages. The arabs revolutionized the book's production and its binding in the medieval islamic world. They were the first to produce paper books after they learnt paper industry from the Chinese in the 8th century.
* Facts about books:
- The human race publishes a book every thirty second.
- The first book to sell a million copies was margaret mitchell's gone with the Wind.
- The Holy bible is the biggest selling book all time.
- The oldest printed book in the world is believed to be 'The diamond sutra' which bears the date 868 Ad.
- Britains most expensive book is Shakespeare's first folio which sold at auction for $5,153,000 in U.S. dollars.
- JK Rowling's harry potter and the order of the phoenix is the fastest selling book's ever.
- Book sales in the UK topped over 1254278383 dollars in 2007.
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