Why the Printing Press Will Kill Books
via Michael Hyatt
I tell you, sir,” he whispered, “it is the end of the world. Never were known such excesses of the scholars: it is the cursed inventions of the age that ruin everything: artillery, serpentines, bombards, and above all, printing, that other pestilence from Germany. No more manuscripts! No more books! Printing is cutting up the bookselling trade. The end of the world is certainly at hand!”— Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Originally published in 1831
Stephen
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