Book is a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.Book is a collection of pages inside a cover that you can place in a shelf or often seen on the library.
Here are the different parts of the books and their meaning or functions:
Title
Every book has their own title, they may not be unique but they will have a title on their front page. A title signifies or is the main topic for a certain book. Example is when you read a book with a title of “Algebra”, the first thing that you will think that it is a book of math algebra. It also identifies or it serves as a hint on what the book content is all about.
Author
Every books has their own author, they are the one who wrote the book. It is important to write the author for a book because this will signify that he was the one who wrote the book and that it was his idea. Once a book was plagiarized, the author can apply the copyright law for the one who copied the book.
Publisher
This is the company that prints the books. Well this is rather important because if no company decided to print your books then it won’t be published and it will not have the opportunity to be seen by people.
Illustrator
This depends if the book has its image, some books don’t have image so they won’t need an illustrator. Basically illustrators are the one who draw pictures for a book.
What are the parts of a book?
1. The front matter
2. The body
3. The back matter
1. The front matter
The front matter of a book consists of its very first pages: the title page, copyright page, table of contents, etc. There may also be a preface by the author, or a foreword by someone familiar with their work.
Title page
The full title and author's name as they appear on the cover.
Copyright page
This includes technical information about copyrights, edition dates, typefaces, ISBN, as well as your publisher and printer. Usually appears on the reverse of the title page.
Preface
This is an introduction of written by the author for a book. It usually has acknowledgement for those who assisted the author in his work.
Table of Contents
This contains list of all the pages. This can really help if you are looking for certain page.
2. The body
The body matter of a book is also called the contents of the book. It sits between the front matter and back matter of the book. The body matter or contents consist of parts, chapters, sections, and subsections. 3. The back matter
Back matter is the stuff at the end of your book, after the main sections of the book are finished. Some common items in Back matter include: Index, Bibliography. Appendix
This is an additional matter that the author writes at the end of the book. This can be a document, text, etc.
Glossary
This is commonly seen at the back end of the book. This is a list of words used by the author, usually hard words and in glossary they put the meaning of the words.
Index
This is like the glossary except that it lists the names, subjects, etc with reference to where they occur. This can also be found at the end of the book.
Text
This is where the content is put. They also call this as the body of the book. It contains all the information, story, etc. of a book.
Bibliography
This is a list of the books of a specific author or publisher, or on a specific subject.
