How Printing Innovations (and More) Created an Enduring Class Divide in Books
Jane Friedman
JULY 2, 2024
Our concept of intellectual property was centuries in the future. Others railed that penny dreadfuls debased prose, corrupted youth, and caused crime. Booksellers identified with the gentry and served only the “carriage trade,” buyers who arrived not on foot or by bicycle or public transportation but in private carriages.
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