COMM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sound Recording And Reproduction, Consumerism, Offset Printing
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The history of books from papyrus to paperbacks. By 1000 b. c. e chinese were making book-like objects. Text supplemented with such decoration as initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations. Period in the middle ages during which scribes copied texts by hand. Used chiefly of printers" practice before the general adoption of movable types. Developed in china and later introduced to europe. The chinese were first to develop moveable type. An innovation that was developed independently in europe when johannes. Produced the first so-called modern books, including the latin bible, on special parchment called vellum. The printing press made it possible to mass produce books relatively quickly and cheaply. First print shop in the colonies open for business in 1630. By the mid-1760s, all thirteen colonies had printing shops. In the 1800s cheap machine-made paper and inexpensive paperback books made books more accessible to the masses. Printing got even faster with the mechanical typesetting linotype machines.
