The publication and reading of book has been
traced back to about 6000 years. The first books that were published were done
on some clay made objects and shaped into flat bricks and are in column, having
signs written on the clay.
The establishment of the papyrus about 398 B. C
reduced the use of the clay brick for publication and this made the writing
skill to be improved. The papyrus sheets were glued to each other to generate
what is called scroll in different sizes and length.
The early books that were manufactured were hand
copied and because of this, the books were expensive to buy. All these changed
during the 1430s when a German printer, Gutenberg started trying some new ways to
make the primitive mode of publication better. His experiments led to the
Movable kind of book. Some evidence has shown and proved that the movable type
of book was manufactured in china by a chinese man named Pi Ching, and claims
has suggested that this happened long time before the birth of Gutenberg.
In the year 1454, Mazarin Bible was printed by
Gutenberg. And this is the first book that is noted to be printed with the
movable type. The oldest printed book is called ‘The Diamond Sutra’ that was
manufactured in china in 868 AD. The Mazarine Bible spread all over the Europe.
The first printed book is much like the hand copied versions of the book that
were manufactured during the Middle Ages, and since then has passed through
several modifications and development in paper, paper binding, printing, typography
and publishing.
source of picture: www.bib.umontreal.ca
Book is considered to have the long-term power and
has much influence among the mass media. The book is the medium that is used to
stimulate change in the society, communicate important thoughts of a society,
educate the people of the society in school and other places of learning, and
it is seen both as a mass medium and as an institution.
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