The reading revolution
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The printing press brought a vast rise in literacy, its effects was the great expansion of written culture at the expense of oral culture. The development of printing, and especially the invention of movable type by Gutenberg, like the development of writing itself, had profound effects on human societies and knowledge. "Print culture" refers to the cultural products of the printing transformation.
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