And the printed book never had the potential to put the expert lecturer at risk.
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The printed book was a much more powerful learning innovation, because it allowed students to get a good higher education at a university lacking rare manuscripts or world-class scholars.
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In the same way, there may be a road to a niche audience in the creation of artistic versions of current books as a means to keep the printed book alive.
The shrinkage of the printed book business - particularly in non-fiction - has also led the publisher setting up ad-funded websites Honest John - for car enthusiasts, the Complete University Guide and home-grown veg site Allotments.
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He looked around and discovered a burgeoning industry of companies that help authors publish their own books in any format they like, from the traditional printed book to e-books and Amazon's Kindle, and now for the iPad.
In this context, Minister Poghosyan underscored the successful impact of the designation of Yerevan as the World Book Capital in 2012 and invited the Director-General to attend the closing celebration on 10-11 December coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the first Armenian printed book in the country.
"So customers should get the book at the around half the price of a printed book, " he said.
But despite the huge growth in e-books in the past few years, the traditional publishing houses are not yet predicting the end of printed book.
Three hundred thousand copies of the first edition of the book have been printed in Italy.
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Formatting and layout of text in the e-book may be different, but the informational content of an e-book will not differ in any substantive respect from that of a tangible, printed copy of the same book.
In the US, copyright holders get 63% of the price of each book printed to order from Google Books, with the Internet service retaining the remaining 37%.
At the latest count, the book is now scheduled to be printed in 16 countries and in 19 languages.
Over 50, 000 copies of the book have been printed this year and many were sent to holders of Tesco clubcards.
We approached our current publisher with the idea, but they were appalled by the cost of publishing a printed book with some 300 four-color illustrations.
The Bay Psalm Book, which was printed in Massachusetts in 1640, is one of 11 remaining copies of a translated version of the Book of Psalms.
At the time, it was the highest price paid for a printed book.
In the book Schwarzenegger re-printed a photograph of a United Nations speech on combating global warming that he gave in 2007.
The publisher will ship the printed books to those 5 distributors, and no one will market the book unless, again, the author makes separate arrangements.
At the time, the council stocked up on printed copies of the trilogy, buying 200 extra copies of each book.
In portrait mode, about 30-35 lines of text are visible, offering an experience similar to that of a printed paperback book, says the company.
For the most part, the last disruptive change in the book industry was back in the 1400s, when Johannes Gutenberg printed a bible with movable type.
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One project is The book that disappears, a volume printed on reactive paper that turns black after 20 minutes.
But it's a measure of the dominance of oral culture over the printed word both here and in the rest of Africa that Ivory Coast's leading book shop chain says it's only sold four thousand copies of Houphouet Boigny's Imaginary Plots.
The book-to-bill ratio for printed circuit boards was 1.02 in June, up from 1.0 in May and 0.97 in April, according to IPC, an industry trade association.
While e-books have won over a number of people, the latest stats from The Publishers Association suggest that the majority of Brits still prefer the printed form, which accounted for 88 percent of all book sales during 2012.
This book (available electronically but always printed by the executive team) was several inches thick.
The idea was to augment its online local business search with printed book.
Late in 2007, Amazon released the Kindle, which presented a decent simulacrum of printed pages and could wirelessly download a book in sixty seconds.
The study also found that 89% of book readers of all ages had read a printed book and 30% had read an ebook.
The Samsung e-book displays reflect light naturally and deliver an appearance similar to that of printed paper, allowing people to read more naturally than they would with other backlit electronic paper devices.
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