SMC228H1 Chapter 3: reading3c notes
6 Jan 2019
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Gutenberg to 19th century: simple business model, combined everything as trade increased and more international, roles seperated. -koenig steam press, rolling-cylinder, 1814 in britain steam power== major symbol of wes eup social and economic following french revolution and. Napoleonic wars of the 1790s and early 1800s. Koenig press secretly installed by the times (1000 impressions/hour) 1814, nov 29 print culture, reporting on itself, occupied a central place in public awareness of industrial revolution from 1830s, british experience replicated to other places. Us: golden age of printing in us is after 1830. 1860s-1890s, boston-based beadle brothers, mass-market paperpack first paperpack, malaeska, the indian wife of the white hunter, summer, 1860. France: technology advance, increase in education, relaxing law textual innovation: serialized novel (copy from britain) 19th c french distribution sources inspired by british models: London, 1842, c. e. mudie, circulating library system, distribute victorian fiction. Newspaper and railway bookstall network, w. h. smith, by 1862 monopoly english railway, continue until late 20th century.
