10. Types of Books
• Trade Books - for general readers,
sold at bookstores (fiction and
nonfiction, biographies, literary
classics, art books, cook books,
etc.) Can be hard or “quality”
softbound.
• Is the largest segment in sales ($).
COLLEEN?
11. Types of Books
• Professional Books -
Target occupational
groups, not general
public. Law, business,
medicine, technical-
scientific.
12. Types of Books
• Textbooks -
• El-hi
– influence of Texas and California
• College
– Average cost $72.83.
– Average student spends $832 a year on
textbooks and supplies.
13. Why do people read?
• For pleasure and entertainment
• Education and learning
• To get information
• Advice
14. Advantages of reading
• Reading books can have a positive effect on us:
- we can acquire new knowledge, information from books
- improve our imagination
- get better our communication skills, widen our vocabulary
- books make us think about different topics
- books amuse us
15. Think-Pair-Share
1. how much money did you spend this
semester on textbooks?
2. which books cost the most money?
3. if you returned last semester books,
how much $$ would you get back?
4. what choices are available at at school
for purchasing textbooks?
16. THINK PAIR SHARE
• What kinds of trade books (novels,
nonfiction, etc.) do you like to read?
• How do you find out about a book you
might like?
• Where do you buy books?
• Do you check books out of a library?
