"Print and its systems dominated for so long they came to seem not just the marvelous flowering of a technological achievement but practically a teleological inevitability. But just as moveable type would make obsolete the medieval scriptoria where monastic scribes labored for weeks upon single books, so too Gutenberg's invention is now giving way to the creative destruction of an arguably more powerful technology. And ultimately it won't matter much whether any of us prefers print to pixels; just as it didn't matter whether early renaissance readers preferred illuminated manuscripts to mass-printed books." -NANCY LEVINSON, Print and Pixel
Gutenberg invented the printing press to make it easier and much quicker to print books and posters. Before the printing press the typographic elements would have to be hand carved out of a block of wood in order to create the design of the page. This advancement made is so much easier to reproduce and send out information to the world. The internet and e-books of today are an even better solution to the process of sending out information. Up until books were made for the internet, it was much more costly and time consuming to make book. Before digital publishing it would take several steps and time consuming processes to create a finished printed piece. It would also involve sending your idea out to a publishing company, paying them to print out how ever many copies, and then waiting for them to arrive. Now everything is in one place and is very easy to create and upload to the internet without waiting and spending a lot. Many people still prefer physical books over e-books and other online publishing, but I agree that digital publishing will become the dominant way of publishing in the future. It just makes sense for society to turn to the digital because it saves money, time, and lots and lots of paper.
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