Authors of invention: the amazing men and women who changed the way writers write and readers read.(Review)

Book | November 1, 2001| | Copyright

It took more than one writer's imagination to produce that novel that's standing on your bookshelf. Before there could be a book, someone had to invent the paper it was printed on. Someone had to invent a way to put that print on the page. Someone had to figure out how to make copies of those words. Somewhere along the line, someone had to come up with the idea of a novel. Throughout the history of literature, between the time paper was created and word processing was invented, there have been hundreds of spectacular innovations that have affected writing and reading. Before ...

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