Book cover, also known as binding, is an artistic and technical design of the form, material and production of a book before printing.

2065438+On September 25th, 2009, the Ministry of Education and other four departments jointly issued a notice, requiring primary and secondary schools not to force students to use plastic book covers, especially those with problems, and strive to realize the "plastic-free school season".

Its contents include folio design, cover design, layout design, binding form and binding materials. , including folio, cover, cover, spine, layout, ring lining, title page, illustration, insert, back cover, copyright page and envelope. Cover design generally consists of two parts: text and pictures. The binding form of books is related to the arrangement.

Most books in China are horizontally arranged, and the binding forms adopted are hardcover, paperback, singles, bound volumes, popular volumes, reduced volumes, pocket editions, special collections and luxury volumes. In addition, there are mounting methods such as floating mouth, rounded corners, corner wrapping, label checking and burr, and the spine of the book is different from the square spine.