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Author(s) | Aileen Fyfe |
Subtitle | William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860 |
Edition | 1 |
Published | 28th February 2012 |
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William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860
With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel?Gutenberg?s printing press had been around for nearly four centuries?but printed matter was still a rare and relatively expensive luxury. All this changed, however, as publishers began employing new technologies to astounding effect, mass-producing instructive and educational books and magazines and revolutionizing how knowledge was disseminated to the general public.