Book
Book
!The [Gutenberg Bible, published in the mid-15th century, one of the first books to be printed using the printing press](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/GutenbergBible%2CLenoxCopy%2CNewYorkPublicLibrary%2C2009.Pic01.jpg/500px-GutenbergBible%2CLenoxCopy%2CNewYorkPublicLibrary%2C2009.Pic01.jpg)
Contemporary publishing
English-language publishing is currently dominated by the so-called "Big Five" publishers: Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan Publishers. They were estimated to make up almost 60 percent of the market for general-readership books in 2021.
Design
Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various elements of a book into a coherent unit.