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book industry

industry that manufactures or distributes books
Class type of: cultural industry Q56560668

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
industry
Subclass of
cultural industry[2]
Industry
Book Publishers [2002–2022 definition], Book Publishers [1997–2002 definition], Books: Publishing, or Publishing and Printing[3][4][5]
International Standard Industrial Classification code Rev.4
5811[7]
Said to be the same as
book publishing[6]
Studied by
book sociology[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en book industry ar صناعة الكتب cs knižní průmysl da bogbranchen de Buchbranche fi kirja-ala fi kirjateollisuus fr industrie du livre hu könyvipar it industria del libro ja 書籍業界 ja 書籍産業 nl boekbranche nl boekenbranche nl boekindustrie ru книжная индустрия sv bokbranschen
🔖 Identifiers · 16
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294902228
BBC Things ID
838b9fad-b39d-4798-8baf-bd853f69c878
Dagens Nyheter topic ID
bokbranschen
MeSH descriptor ID
D001870
MeSH tree code
J01.576.655.374, L01.737.150
NL CR AUT ID
ph114936
Provenio UUID
e32c432b-1af8-41b4-9652-bf5959b60c2a
SVKKL authority ID
0288850-knizni-prumysl
ScienceDirect topic ID
social-sciences/book-industry
TDKIV Wikibase ID
Fibonacci coding
TDKIV term ID
000002640
Topic's main category
Category:Book business
Show all 16 identifiers +4
UMLS CUI
C0005995
UNBIS Thesaurus ID
1000659
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept4179
YSO ID
17341

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🔗 Connections
← Industry 16
Frankfurt Book Fair, Ravensburger, United States Government Publishing Office, Rowohlt Verlag, Ekushey Book Fair, book publisher, BookBub, Cite Publishing Ltd. +8 more
Instance of 1
industry
Subclass of 1
cultural industry
Subtypes 1
book retail industry
TDKIV Wikibase ID 1
Fibonacci coding
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Summary

book industry is an industry[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0288850-knizni-prumysl
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0288850-knizni-prumysl, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  2. 21w ago · Chalmd · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BBC Things ID → 838b9fad-b39d-4798-8baf-bd853f69c878
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ BBC Things ID: 838b9fad-b39d-4798-8baf-bd853f69c878, Adding BBC Things ID"
  3. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ScienceDirect topic ID → social-sciences/book-industry
    Said to be the same as → book publishing
    UNBIS Thesaurus ID → 1000659
    Yso id → —
    + 39 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ YSO ID: 17341, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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