One very important consequence of the printing revolution is, certainly, the wide spread of information.As mentioned in previous posts, printed texts were much cheaper and abundant than hand copied ones. This movement allowed access to a larger reading public.
Books were no longer an unaccessible good. There was a reduce of the cost of producing books which allowed a increase in both dissemination of texts and "literati" members of society. With a large amount of published material, there were much more specific cultural information available and, therefore, more cultural interchange.
For Ms. Eisenstein, the most important consequence of the printing press was its preservative power, what she calls “typographical fixity.” What does she mean by that? Before the introduction of printing to Europe, lots of classical texts had been lost forever. The printing press, by making abundant copies, reduced the chances of losing texts and books. This endurance allowed great advance in all sorts of intellectual fields.
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