Why is it said that people who buy books and pick publishing houses don t buy books at all ?

How to pick a good book :

1.First of all, to choose a book that is worth reading, we must learn from the experience of our predecessors, and the books left by our predecessors are good books.

2.Once you've chosen, look for books from there, and the next step is to choose the right one for you from these books. That is, choosing good books.

3.There are many people who never read the preface when they read books, because they never need to read the preface of the textbook when they go to school, but the preface is the author's purpose in writing the book, and the author intends to take us to**.

4.After reading the preface, I understand the author's purpose of writing, but there is a bigger question, does the author fully describe how to do what is described in the book? This requires us to read the table of contents carefully. Table of contents allows us to understand the author, for the structure of a book.

5.Choosing a good book, knowing what the author wrote, now is our own business. Reading a good book is like talking to a person.

Leave aside the nonsense about the quality of the print. If it is a Chinese book, as long as there are few errors, it is fine, and there is not much difference between general publishing houses. But translated books in foreign languages are different, like Pushkin's poetry collections, many people have translated them, but strong publishing houses will pick out the best of them.

Generally good translators submit articles to big publishers. If you have the ability to discriminate, you can just look at the translator, and if you can't identify yourself, you can buy the one issued by a major publishing house.

First of all, you must be clear about your needs, whether it is **, poetry or popular science or something, you can't aimlessly see everything you want to buy,. Secondly, when facing the same type of books, you must look at the publishing house, because it is relatively easy to publish books now, so it is inevitable that the quality of some books is not very good, that is, in terms of ancient literature, the better ones are Zhonghua Book Company Publishing House, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, People's Publishing House, etc. Again, it is necessary to look at who the writer is, of course, it is still authoritative.

But reading should also be seen dialectically, authority is not absolute, we need to have a pair of eyes to find problems. Finally, I think we should focus on practicality, if we don't give it as a gift, it is more economical to buy a softcover book, and we can save some money to buy more good books!

There are three ways: first, hit the ** behind the book or the landline. Second, find some bookstores that have been in business for a long time, and then ask the store manager to help you contact the publishing house to order books.

It depends on your relationship with the store manager, or if you give the store manager a certain fee for him or her to help). Third, find the publisher's WeChat*** or the publisher's operation number, which can be ordered directly (this is also the most reliable).

Press or publishing house refers to an organization that publishes books, pictures, magazines, newspapers, electronic items and other copyrighted items. Such as: People's Publishing House, China Agriculture Press, China Forestry Press, etc.

What is publishing is the first question to be touched upon in publishing research. Different understandings of the connotation of publishing activities lead to different understandings of the structure of publishing knowledge systems. Therefore, both Chinese and foreign publishing circles attach great importance to the study of the connotation of publishing and have formed different understandings.

According to Japanese scholars, "a series of acts of reproducing manuscripts, pictures, ** and other works by means of printing and other mechanical or chemical methods, arranging them into the form of various publications, and promulgating them to the public are collectively referred to as publishing." According to British scholars, publishing is "making available to the public books, maps, engravings, songs, or other works that have been copied, printed, or otherwise reproduced by any other means."

According to American scholars, "publishing is the process of preparation, printing, and production of publications in the form of printed matter or electronic media that are accessible to the public." "Korean scholars believe that

Publishing is "the printing of manuscripts, documents, pictures, musical scores, etc., for the purpose of dissemination or sale, so that they can be published and published". Article 6 of the Universal Copyright Convention, published in 1971, defines publication as "the act of reproducing a work that is readable or visually perceptible in a tangible form and communicating the copy to the public." ”

Books are different from publisher to publisher. These differences are generally reflected in the cover, typography, proofreading and other aspects。Then I will talk about the differences between domestic works and foreign works.

First of all, different publishing houses may not seem to have any particular influence on the works of domestic writers. But there will be a difference between cover packaging and **, and sometimes the cover design has an impact on the reader's purchase。Just like a book, the same work, the content is the same, but when the book has not been opened, you will choose the book by ** and appearance.

Some book lovers like to collect books, and they will choose a more commemorative cover packaging; And some just pay attention to ** and practicality, and don't care too much about the packaging. Therefore, some publishers will release both a hardcover version and a hardcover version of the same book, so that book lovers have more choices. Then there's typography, printing, and paper, which is very much affecting my reading mood for me personally.

Clear printing is a basic requirement, but according to everyone's different preferences, some people prefer rough paper, while others prefer smooth paper; Some people prefer a simple and loose typography, while others prefer a compact and focused one. This is also a big difference between different publishers.

For foreign works, different publishing houses publish the same book, and the difference is even greater. Not just for all of the aboveThe difference in translators can have a big impact on reading。Take Augustine's "Confessions" as an example, one is published by the Commercial Press and translated by Mr. Zhou Shiliang, and the other is published by Times Literature and Art Publishing House and translated by Mr. Ying Feng.

Let's just take a sentence and compare it.

Translated by Mr. Zhou Shiliang.

Whenever you did not listen to me for my own good, even my parents, who did not want me to suffer, laughed at me: this was my great tribulation at that time.

Translated by Mr. Ying Feng.

Adults think that this is reasonable, and that the winding path opened up by our ancestors for their children and grandchildren is full of thorns.

Because Augustine's Confessions belong to the third century, it is difficult to translate them accurately. Although Mr. Ying Feng's translation seems more concise and has less length, Mr. Zhou Shiliang's translation is more literary and readable.

In fact, different publishers publish different types of book series, but I don't know much about the specific differences, so I won't explain them here.

Books from different publishers are not very different in nature. The reason why there is a selection of publishers is that there is also a ranking in the publishing house, if a book, especially if the author himself is very famous, but in a particularly small publishing house, it will lower the corresponding level.

To buy a published book, you can do it in the following ways:

1. Go to a bookstore: You can go to your local bookstore, find the book you want, and buy it home.

2. Buy online: You can log in to some online bookstores, such as Amazon, Dangdang, etc., find the books you want, and then order them home.

3. Borrow books through the library: You can go to your local library, find the book you want, and borrow it home.

To buy a published book, there are several ways to do so:

2. Go to bookstores to buy: You can go to local bookstores, such as China Bookstore, Reader's Bookstore, etc., to browse the published books and buy them directly.

3. Go to the library to borrow: You can also go to the local library to borrow published books, and the general library will charge a certain deposit, and the books should be returned within the specified time after borrowing.