JP2000025360A - Book making system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a book making system for making book to be constituted of required parts only in compliance with the request of a user, also making required copies thereof only and reducing the physical distribution cost. SOLUTION: In a book making system, a data storage means 1 for storing the contents of books as a data and a printing means 2 for printing based on the data are so connected each other as to carry out the data communication. One data of one or a plurality of parts of a book selected by a user are transmitted from the data storage means 1 to the printing means 2 to make a book constituted of selected parts.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a book production system for producing textbooks, problem books, commentary books and other appropriate books in various fields.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, books such as school textbooks, computer operation methods, textbooks in various fields, problem books, and commentaries have been published. These books are composed of multiple parts.However, depending on the place of use such as schools and companies, only a few parts are often used, and unnecessary parts are wasted, and , Books were bulky and heavy.

[0003] Further, although these books are sold through bookstores, they are often returned due to an excessive number of copies issued, and the distribution cost is high.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, the present invention
It is an object of the present invention to provide a book production system which can produce a book composed of only necessary parts in response to a user's request, and can publish only a required number of copies, thereby reducing distribution costs.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention employs the following technical means.

In the book production system of the present invention, a data storage means 1 for storing the contents of a book as data and a printing means 2 for printing based on the data are connected in a data communicable manner, and are selected by a user. The data of one or a plurality of parts of the book is transmitted from the data storage unit 1 to the printing unit 2 and printing is performed to produce a book composed of the selected parts.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the book production system of the present invention, a data storage means 1 for storing the contents of a book as data and a printing means 2 for printing based on the data are connected in a data communicable manner and selected by a user. Data of one or a plurality of parts of the book is transmitted from the data storage unit 1 to the printing unit 2 to perform printing, thereby producing a book composed of the selected parts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the book production system. The data storage unit 1 is a computer having a storage device such as a hard disk. Data storage means 1
Contains various textbooks, problem books, commentary books, etc., in which the contents of a book composed of several parts are converted into digital data in an appropriate format and stored. . The data of each part constitutes an independent file, and can be individually transferred to and from the data storage unit 1.

The printing means 2 prints a necessary number of copies on paper based on the data transmitted from the data storage means 1. The data storage unit 1 and the printing unit 2 can be connected, for example, via the Internet.

The users are teachers and students at schools, trainers and employees at companies, but are not limited to these. The user is provided with a list 3 that can list the contents of the book. The list 3 may be distributed in the form of a medium such as paper or a floppy disk, or may be displayed on a web page on the Internet. In addition, the list 3 may simply describe each part of the book, but the book itself may be used as the list 3.

The user decides which part to select and the required number of copies with reference to the list 3, and gives the manager of the data storage means 1 or the printing means 2 a verbal, telephone, F
Notify by AX, e-mail, etc. Then, the administrator accesses the data storage unit 1 and inputs the information of the selected part and the number of copies. Alternatively, the user may access the data storage means 1 through a network such as the Internet and input the information of the part and the number of copies.

When the information of the selected part and the number of copies are input, the data storage unit 1 transmits the data of the selected part to the printing unit 2 and the printing unit 2 needs the selected part. Number of copies are printed. The printing unit 2 also prints the cover and spine of the book. The user's school name or company name may be printed on the cover and back.

The printed book is completed by binding or binding with a binder. The work of binding or binding with a binder may be performed by a machine or manually.

Since the book production system is configured as described above, the contents of the book can be configured according to the learning items and levels desired by the user. For example, if the original book consists of five parts from Chapter 1 to Chapter 5 and the user does not need the contents of Chapter 4, by selecting the parts other than Chapter 4, 2
A book composed of chapters, chapters 3 and 5, is produced.

The printing means 2 can add a page number to each page. However, even if there is a missing part, a page that is continuous with the last page of the previous part and the first page of the subsequent part By typing the number, the page number can be prevented from being skipped. For example, in the case described above, a continuous page number may be input to the last page of the third chapter and the first page of the fifth chapter.

As described above, since the book production system can variously configure the contents of the book according to the user's request, it is possible to produce a light-weight book without wasting the contents, without being bulky. It is. In addition, the required number of copies can be produced when necessary, and the number of issued copies does not become excessive.

In this embodiment, the user, the data storage means 1 and the printing means 2 are located at remote locations, respectively.
, Or the printing unit 2 may be configured as a peripheral device of the data storage unit 1, for example.

It is also possible to store the contents of a plurality of books in the same field or different fields in the data storage means 1 and select an appropriate part from each book to organize a new book. is there.

[0020]

The book production system according to the present invention is configured as described above, and can produce a book composed of only necessary parts in response to a user's request.
Only the required number of copies can be issued, and there is no distribution cost.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a book production system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 data storage means 2 printing means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A data storage means (1) for storing the contents of a book as data and a printing means (2) for printing based on the data are connected so as to be capable of data communication, and the book selected by a user is provided. Transmitting data of one or more parts from the data storage means (1) to the printing means (2) and performing printing to produce a book composed of the selected parts. Book production system.