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A pamphlet is an unbound booklet
Booklet

*A booklet is a small book or group of pages.*Postage stamp booklet, a small groups where any postage stamps may be purchased if needed....
 (that is, without a hard cover
Hardcover

A hardcover is a book bookbinding with rigid protective covers . They may have flexible sewn spines which allow the book to lie flat on a surface when opened, although most modern commercial hardcover books have glued spines....
 or binding
Bookbinding

Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It also usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block....
). It may consist of a single sheet of paper
Paper

Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
 that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and stapled at the crease to make a simple book. In order to count as a pamphlet, UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 requires a publication (other than a periodical) to have 'at least 5 but not more than 48 pages exclusive of the cover pages'; a longer item is a book
Book

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side....
.

Pamphlets can contain anything from information on kitchen appliances to medical information and religious treatises.






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A pamphlet is an unbound booklet
Booklet

*A booklet is a small book or group of pages.*Postage stamp booklet, a small groups where any postage stamps may be purchased if needed....
 (that is, without a hard cover
Hardcover

A hardcover is a book bookbinding with rigid protective covers . They may have flexible sewn spines which allow the book to lie flat on a surface when opened, although most modern commercial hardcover books have glued spines....
 or binding
Bookbinding

Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It also usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block....
). It may consist of a single sheet of paper
Paper

Paper is thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets....
 that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and stapled at the crease to make a simple book. In order to count as a pamphlet, UNESCO
UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
 requires a publication (other than a periodical) to have 'at least 5 but not more than 48 pages exclusive of the cover pages'; a longer item is a book
Book

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side....
.

Pamphlets can contain anything from information on kitchen appliances to medical information and religious treatises. Pamphlets are very important in marketing
Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
 as they are cheap to produce and can be distributed easily to customers. Pamphlets have also long been an important tool of political protest
Protest

Protest expresses relatively overt reaction to events or situations: sometimes in favor, though more often opposed. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly and forcefully making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or may undertake direct action to attempt to directly enact desi...
 and political campaign
Political campaign

A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracy, political campaigns often refer to election campaigns, wherein representatives are chosen or referendum are decided....
ing for similar reasons.

The storage of individual pamphlets requires special consideration because they can be easily crushed or torn when shelved alongside hardcover books. For this reason, they should either be kept in file folders in a file cabinet, or kept in boxes that have approximately the dimensions of a hardcover book and placed vertically on a shelf, not horizontally.

Etymology

The word pamphlet for a small work (opuscule) issued by itself without covers came into Middle English
Middle English

Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and about 1470, when the #Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William...
 ca 1387 as pamphilet or panflet, generalized from a twelfth-century amatory comic poem
Elegiac comedy

Elegiac comedy was a genre of medieval Latin Latin literature or Medieval theatre popular in the twelfth century. About twenty such works survive, all of them produced in west central France, roughly the Loire Valley....
 with a satiric flavor, Pamphilus, seu de Amore ("Pamphilus: or, Concerning Love"), written in Latin. Pamphilus's name was derived from Greek, meaning "loved by all". The poem was popular and widely copied and circulated on its own, forming a slim codex
Codex

A codex is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book in all Eurasian cultures....
.

Its modern connotations of a tract concerning a contemporary issue was a product of the heated arguments leading to the English Civil War
English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Roundhead and Cavalier. The First English Civil War and Second English Civil War civil wars pitted the supporters of Charles I of England against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the Third English Civil War saw fighting between supporters...
; this sense appeared in 1642. In some European languages other than English, this secondary connotation, of a disputaceous tract, has come to the fore: compare libelle
Libelle (literary genre)

A libelle is a political pamphlet or book which slanders a public figure. Libelles held particular significance in France under the Ancien R?gime, especially during the eighteenth century, when the pamphlets? attacks on the monarchy became both more numerous and venomous....
, from the Latin libellus, denoting a "little book".

See also

  • Airborne leaflet propaganda
    Airborne leaflet propaganda

    Airborne leaflet propaganda is a form of psychological warfare that militaries use in foreign conflict to alter the behavior of people in enemy-controlled territory....
  • Brochure
    Brochure

    A brochure or pamphlet is a leaflet advertisement. Brochures may advertise locations, events, hotels, products, services, etc. They are usually succinct in language and eye-catching in design....
  • Flyer (pamphlet)
    Flyer (pamphlet)

    A flyer is a single page leaflet advertising a nightclub, festival, Service , or other activity. Flyers are typically used by individuals or businesses to promote their products or services....


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  • Historical overview focusing on pamphlet binding.