The Research On Lifestyle Illustrated Books Published In China

Illustrated books are the outcome of the publishing’s development in new era.With the continuous innovation of the science and technology and the constant acceleration of the social rhythm, the needs of people for information and knowledge have been increasing while their requirements have also been enhanced. From the early radio, movie and television to the contemporary growing computer and Internet, all of those new mass media help to make up for the deficiency of the traditional media especially in timeliness, dynamics, ornamental value, bringing great satisfaction to the needs of different people and enriching ways to acquire knowledge and information. In the new era, visual perception is playing an increasingly important role during the process of acquiring knowledge and information. Therefore, traditional books encounter unprecedented challenges, which promote the appearance of the illustrated books. It is more a great revolution than an expanded development of the conventional books, which courageously accept challenges and keep pace with the time.The publication of illustrated books becomes an important aspect of modern publishing industry and develops rapidly. However, there are still a number of common problems, including: misunderstanding illustrated books; the illustrated book publishing blindly following suit; ignoring the property of the books when making them piecing together and crudely making the books; paying no attention to the cost control. All of those problems existed in the lifestyle illustrated books. If they were not efficiently solved, we would not provide quality service to the reader, which would affect the healthy development of publishing industry. Thus, we need to pay attention to them.So it is of vital importance to analyze and study the publishing status, existing problems and development trend of the lifestyle illustrated books. When the illustrated books are growing quickly, this paper intends to use various methods do the research based on fact and data, hoping to offer some useful suggestions and advancing the healthy development of lifestyle illustrated books. It is an important characteristic of this research to pay attention to the inner relation between technical innovation and industrial development and summarize how the real time data powerfully support the point.The development of lifestyle illustrated books cannot be ignored during the process of publishing industry. It is a duty and responsibility for every publisher, writer and bookmaker to do a good job in every detail. Although the contemporary lifestyle illustrated books are fully developed, there are many problems. The paper analyzes the development and existing problem in detail and gives corresponding advice. Many scholars and publishers discussed this topic. In my paper, I draw lessons from the past, add my own experience and comprehensively analyses the publishing problems of our books, looking forward to having my own thinking about the development of publishing industry. Moreover, the development of digital network technology will promote and influence that of the lifestyle illustrated books. In the paper, I have my own opinion about where the books need to go. The article tries best to present the development of lifestyle illustrated books by analyzing the statistics and finding out new cases and breakthroughs.