Books

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Books

• The Permanent Medium

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Ancient History

• Clay Tablets 2,500 B.C.
• Papyrus Scrolls Egypt, Rome, Greece
• First Public Library Athens 540 B.C.
• Had 1 ½ million handwritten scrolls
• Burned in War by Romans
• Destroyed by 400 A.D.

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More History

• Paper perfected by Chinese during Middle Ages
• Johannes Gutenberg 1456 Moveable Type
• Bible first printed in Latin 42 lines per page

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EPS Appliedto U.S.

• Elite stage up to 19th century
• First Press at Harvard in 1638 by Mass Bay
  Colonists
• The Whole Book of Psalmes/Bay Psalm Book
• First Secular to have success was Ben Franklin
  Poor Richards Almanac in 1733
• Franklin 1744 first Novel Pamela by Samuel
  Richardson

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More EPS

• Thomas Payne 1776 Common Sense
• 120,000 in 3 months
• spelled out case for American Revolution

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Popular

• Rise of public education in the mid 1800s
• US had highest literacy rate in the world
• Industrial Revolution helped make book more
  affordable rotary press
• Popular novelists Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David
  Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Erastus Beadle mass produced dime novels

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More Popular

• Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852
• Uncle Toms Cabin
• Herman Melville 1851
• Moby Dick
• Mark Twain
• authors become popular and have followings
• Free public library system arrives

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More Popular

• As industry grows and topics expand,
• censorship arrives
• Anthony Comstock 1873 New York City
• New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
• made it illegal to send anything obscene through
  the mail
• Banned books burned books

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Specialized

• 1945 to present
• You name it
• Self-help
• Science Fiction
• Non-fiction In Cold Blood Truman Capote
• Instant booksJFK assassination
• Photo books
• Mass market Paperbacks
• Comic Books Late 1930s Action Comics/Superman

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More Specialized

• Mid 1980s to present
• Largest number of salestextbooks!
• Audio books
• E-books hand held electronic devices
• Desktop Publishing What Color is Your Parachute?
  Richard Nelson Bolles
• Conglomerates (see video)
• Amazon.com