Abstract

Digitization has brought the five hundred-year-old Gutenberg era to an end. Gutenberg's press opened the gates to our modern rational, secular world. The cultural impact of today's digital technologies, which will bring multilingual literacy to the far corners of the earth, foreshadows far greater changes. Gutenberg's contemporaries could not begin to imagine the effect of movable type on the centuries to come, nor can we imagine the far greater changes that digitization will bring, but we can see even now that the book publishing industry is in for a radical transformation.

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