Disruptive Technological History: Papermaking to Digital Printing

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Beteiligte: Hargrave, Jocelyn
In: Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 44, 2013, 3, S. 221-236
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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Umfang: 221-236
ISSN: 1198-9742
1710-1166
DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44.3.002
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Scholarly Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> Disruptive technologies have been crucial to the shaping of publishing history. Paradoxically, while each of the technologies—specifically, the evolution of papermaking in Europe starting in the late thirteenth century, Gutenberg's printing press and type-casting from metal in the fifteenth century, lithographic offset printing in the twentieth century, and digital printing in the twenty-first century—has, on its own, been indeed revolutionary in nature, together they have served their role in the evolution of the publishing industry. Simply put, the present publishing industry would not be where it is without them. </jats:p>