Steam-powered knowledge: William Chambers and the business of publishing, 1820-1860

By:

Fyfe, Aileen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2012 University of Chicago Press ChicagoDescription: xvi, 313 pISBN:

9780226276519

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DDC classification:

070.50941 F9S8

Summary: 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. (http://www.amazon.com/Steam-Powered-Knowledge-Chambers-Publishing-1820-1860/dp/0226276511)

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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. (http://www.amazon.com/Steam-Powered-Knowledge-Chambers-Publishing-1820-1860/dp/0226276511)

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