Modern ethnicities Books in the United Kingdom have been studied from a variety of cultural, economic, political, and social angles since the formation of the Bibliographical Society in 1892 and since the History of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s.
Books are understood as "written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers".
Scribes produced handwritten manuscript books for many hundreds of years before the printing press was introduced in the British Isles.
"[1] As of 2018[update], seven firms in the United Kingdom rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Informa, Oxford University Press, Pearson, Quarto, and RELX Group.
The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 stipulates that the British Library receives a copy of every printed work published in the United Kingdom.