Guttenberg’s revolution took place in the city of Mainz. That’s where he built and operated the first ever printing press with movable metal letters. Simple printing methods had existed for centuries, of course, but they had to be done by hand and took a long time. What made Guttenberg’s press so different was the individual letters themselves – the ‘type’ could quickly and easily be moved to create different pages. Suddenly, this made it possible to print books cheaper and more quickly than ever before.
Thanks to Guttenberg’s discovery written fiction was able to reach a massive new audience – but not straight away. It was a gradual process which slowly took place over several generations as…(1) more and more printing presses began to operate across Europe, (2) thanks to the Renaissance and the gradual spread of education, more and more people learned to read.
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