With the emphasis on intellectual property, the publishing industry is becoming more and more regulated. However, there are still some illegal publications circulating in the market, which have a negative impact on both readers and authors. Here are a few highlights to help you identify illegal publications.
1. Covers, illustrations and advertisements: Illegal publications often mark a provocative table of contents on the cover, or replace the title with a catalog. Illustrations of illegal publications may be printed with illegal, **horrified, **, etc.
2. Copyright page: The copyright page of the regular publication should comply with national regulations, including the re-registration certificate number of the publishing house. Illegal publications are often not marked as the printing unit, or as non-designated township printing houses or even underground printing houses.
3. The legitimacy of the publishing house: illegal publications may steal the publishing house of the border province (region), or make up the name of the publishing unit. Some illegal publications are only vaguely labeled "distributed by Xinhua Bookstore", but do not clearly indicate the specific bookstore.
4. Standard book number: check whether the compilation and arrangement of the standard book number comply with the regulations, including the publisher's prefix or regional newspaper code, check code, book classification number and content.
5. Paper and printing quality: The paper commonly used in illegal publications is of poor quality, yellow, brittle, and rough in feel. Poor printing quality, including improper plate center, typos, transparent printing, sticky and other phenomena. The binding quality is also very poor, and there are many problems such as folding, knife flowers, and short pages.
6. Selling price: The cost of pirated books is low, and most of the new books that are folded in half by peddellers at a price lower than the marked price are pirated books, which need to be carefully identified.
These points can help you identify illegal publications, so please choose carefully when publishing and buying books, and support legal publications.