Gutenberg press
Johannes Gutenberg's printing press changed the course of human history. It created a new way of doing business, drastically reduced the cost and speed of making books, and enabled texts, ideas and arguments to spread further and faster than ever before. So why did he struggle to make money from it?
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Frédéric Barbier Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity London: Polity Press 2016
John Man The Gutenberg Revolution London: Bantam 2009 Ch. 2
Tom Scocca, ‘The first printed books came with a question: What do you do with these things?’, Boston Globe, 29 August 2010,
Mary Wellesley “Gutenberg’s printed Bible is a landmark in European culture” Apollo Magazine 8 September 2018 and “Fifty Treasures: The Gutenberg Bible”
Jeremiah Dittmar “Europe’s Transformation After Gutenberg” Centrepiece: Spring 2019
Frédéric Barbier Gutenberg's Europe
Ormerod, Why Most Things Fail, p. 15.
Elizabeth Eisenstein The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe New York: Cambridge University Press 1983
Andrew Marantz Anti-social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation New York: Viking 2019
The Gutenberg Bible, The British Library
Tom Scocca, Boston Globe, 29 August 2010
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