Definition of bookland:
(n) :
(historical) In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and fines. It was held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.
(n) :
(informal) The factitious country associated with a numeric country prefix allocated in the 1980s for European Article Number identifiers of published books, regardless of country of origin.