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Still expensive compared to mass market paperbacks where the economics support a significant portion going unsold and sent off to the shredder unread.
by kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
Still expensive compared to mass market paperbacks where the economics support a significant portion going unsold and sent off to the shredder unread.
- WalterBright 4y agoThe printing business took off because it was aimed at the mass market. Even the elite will only buy one copy of a book - not enough to support a printer. "In the first decade of the 1500s CE, it is estimated 2 million books were printed in Europe, up to 20 million by 1550 CE, and around 150 million by 1600 CE" -- google On a related note, the industrial revolution did not make things for the wealthy. They made things for the mass market. Luxury yachts, for example, are one-offs made by artisans, not factories.