Comments on: No e-books here http://www.teleread.com/drm/no-ebooks-here-2/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Ward http://www.teleread.com/drm/no-ebooks-here-2/comment-page-1/#comment-909799 Michael Ward Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:02:36 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12154#comment-909799 Visit the Gutenberg museum in Mainz, Germany, if you get a chance. Besides his bibles, it has exhibits on type making, many other contemporaneous books, and lots of background information. Gutenberg did what amounts to a high-tech startup company, with venture capitalists who eventually threw him out. To get his initial capital he contracted with the Catholic Church to print Indulgence forms (the same Indulgences that Martin Luther railed against), which could then be filled in with names and numbers when they were paid for. Visit the Gutenberg museum in Mainz, Germany, if you get a chance. Besides his bibles, it has exhibits on type making, many other contemporaneous books, and lots of background information.

Gutenberg did what amounts to a high-tech startup company, with venture capitalists who eventually threw him out. To get his initial capital he contracted with the Catholic Church to print Indulgence forms (the same Indulgences that Martin Luther railed against), which could then be filled in with names and numbers when they were paid for.

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