Gutenberg press
Johannes Gutenberg's printing press changed the course of human history. It created a new way of doing business, drastically reduced the cost and speed of making books, and enabled texts, ideas and arguments to spread further and faster than ever before. So why did he struggle to make money from it?
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John Man The Gutenberg Revolution London: Bantam 2009 Ch. 2
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Mary Wellesley 鈥溾�� Apollo Magazine 8 September 2018聽 and 鈥溾�澛犅�
Jeremiah Dittmar 鈥淓urope鈥檚 Transformation After Gutenberg鈥� Centrepiece: Spring 2019
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Elizabeth Eisenstein The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe New York: Cambridge University Press 1983
Andrew Marantz Anti-social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation New York: Viking 2019
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Tom Scocca, Boston Globe, 29 August 2010
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