Bookland was one of the three major types of land ownership in Anglo-Saxon law, denoting land originally granted by royal charter, a boc in Old English. The land was granted in perpetuity and was desirable because of the evidence the charter provided in cases of dispute over ownership. In comparison, loanland was held by lease, usually for one to three lifetimes. The nature of the third type of land ownership, known as folkland, is unclear.[1]
Other meanings
Bookland is also the informal name for the Unique Country Code (UCC) prefix of 978 allocated in the 1980s for the European Article Number (EAN) identifiers of published books, regardless of country of origin. It is a fictitious country invented solely for the purpose of non-geographically cataloguing books in the otherwise geographically keyed EAN coding system.[2]