Source - The History guide - The Printing Press
Dispite Gutenberg trying to keep his methods kept secret they spread quickly and by 1500 around 2500 cities in Europe had got presses.
Some of the changes these presses had on the nation as mentioned in the above article are:
- The increase in output and decrease in cost of books.
- Information became available to a wider population, who were of course eager to retrieve it.
- Libraries were able to store more information at a lower cost.
- "Printing also facilitated the dissemination and preservation of knowledge in standardised form especially when it came to science, technology and scholarship.
- It created what was described as a "information revolution" that has been likened to that of the internet today.
- Printing stimulated the literacy of lay people and eventually came to have a deep and lasting impact on their private lives.
- Most of the earliest printed books were on religious matters however students, businessmen, upper and middle class all bought books on a mixture of topics.
- Printers responded to demand with moralizing,medical, practical and travel manuals.
- Printing provided a superior basis for scholarship and prevented the further corruption of texts through hand copying which meant that the information made more progress and was more reliable as it would have echoed the original.
Summary of some areas outlined here and others that I believe that the printing press had a dramatic impact on. With further research I am sure I will discover some more.
-Medicine
-Religion - Eg Gutenbergs bible
-Technology
-Scholarship
-Ideas, knowledge, Facts
-Stories, tales
-Cultural awareness
- Language - Different words from different regions shared or acknowledged as a separate language
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