Early writing 1
original medium of mass communication
What are books?
A system where letters represent individual sounds
What is an alphabet?
Inventor of a printing press with moveable type
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
Helped create a literate mass society
What are books?
The companies that buy manuscripts from authors, turn them into books, and market them to the public.
Originated around 3500 BC in the Middle East
What is Writing?
A primitive form of paper made from reeds
What is papyrus?
First book printed on a press with moveable type
What is the Gutenberg bible?
Books published in chapter installments (~1830s)
What are serial novels?
General-interest fiction and nonfiction books that are sold in hardback or large-format paperback editions.
What are "trade books"?
Earliest form of writing which consisted of pictures and objects painted on rock walls
What is pictograph?
Primitive form of paper made from animal skins
What is parchment?
All the letters or characters of a single size of a typeface
What is a font?
Inexpensive paperback books that sold for as little as five cents (despite their name). They were especially popular during the Civil War era.
What are dime novels?
The ready-to-print typeset pages sent to book authors for final corrections.
What are proofs?
Abstract symbol that stands for an object or idea
What is an ideograph?
Made from cotton rags or wool pulp; invited by the Chinese ~ 240 BC-105 BC.
What is paper?
Began in 1857 with the goal of finding the origin of every word in the English language.
What is the Oxford English Dictionary?
A steam-powered press invented in 1814 that could print many times faster than the older, hand-powered flat-bed presses
What is a rotary press?
Stores that have a physical presence at which you can shop.
What are brick and mortar stores?
A system of writing in which symbols stand for spoken sounds rather than for objects or ideas in their writing
What is phonography?
Copying room where monks had-copied books
Who is scriptoria?
The first book published in North America by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The book went through more than fifty editions and stayed in print for 125 years.
A typesetting machine that let an operator type at a keyboard rather than pick each letter out by hand. The Linotype was the standard for typesetting until phototypesetting became common in the 1970s.
What is a linotype machine?
A form of publishing in which the physical book is not printed until it’s ordered, or until the distributor of the book prints additional copies in small batches.
What is print on demand?