The unintended consequences of the printing press are a good reminder that we have no idea what the internet has in store for us. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2019-12-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
A decade after rescuing it from an imminent shutdown, Duncan McIntosh has sold newspaper industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher to consultant Mike Blinder for an undisclosed sum. In an announcement late last week, E&P indicated that its upcoming October issue will be the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-09-03 20:10:05 UTC ]
In the history of information technologies, Gutenberg and his printing press are (understandably) treated with the kind of reverence even the most celebrated of modern tech tycoons could only imagine. So perhaps it will come as a surprise that Europe’s literacy rates remained fairly stagnant for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eight-page section containing the Book of Esther was part of 15th-century edition cut up and sold in pieces by New York book dealer in 1920sAn eight-page fragment from the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book to be printed using Johann Gutenberg’s printing press in 15th-century Germany, will go... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
There’s something about ink, paper and the printing press that has always bothered tyrants and those afraid of ideas.Was there a single old hand in the world of magazines who didn’t read the stories about the demand for copies of the post-massacre edition of Charlie Hebdo, raise their eyebrows... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
If these are the end times for literature, then we must be traveling in circles, for the death of storytelling looks an awful lot like its birth. The novel itself isn’t all that old. Sure, we can find a handful of examples going back thousands of years, but you have to stretch your definition of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
From Clay Foster, chairman and CEO of Journal Inc. and publisher of the Daily Journal: Today’s paper is the culmination of months of planning and hard work to go live on a new printing press. In challenging economic times this was not an e ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]