BOOKS

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BOOKS

• Chapter Two

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J.K. Rowling

• 1997
• Age 28
• Finished her first book
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

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Harry Potter

• A sequel a year
• By 2000, 35 million copies in print
• In 2001, sales passed 100 million.

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Johannes Gutenberg

• He did NOT invent the printing press
• He invented the systen of moveable metal type
• When 1446
• An instant and permanent revolution

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More on Gutenberg

• By 1500, nearly 40,000 books had been printed
• End of the scribists age and the beginning of
  truly MASS communication
• He printed 200 Bibles one sold in 1978 for 2.4
  million
• He died a pauper

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Books Facts

• They define our national culture.
• Book publishing in America began in 1638 the
  Cambridge Press
• Colonial Period - elitist

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More Books Facts

• Name at least one of four uniquely American
  novels of the 1800s. (p. 30)
• Two kinds of books trade and text
• Total US book industry -- 24 billion annually
• Who is Jeff Bezos? (p. 45)
• What is the typical royalty of a trade book? (p.
  36)