Things you still dont know about BOOKS | Part — I
As we enter another era of progress and rather a big move from paper to pixel, let us explore the journey of BOOKS and the track it underwent to reach our hands. once the selected had access to paper and now yearly consumption in 2017 stood at 418.79 million metric tones.
The feel and the smell of the newly printed book are no less than a cocaine to the book lovers. As the Global Book market stood at 142 billion dollars industry. The readers connects with its author and lives the imaginative world that the book creates for its readers.
The future of the books in pixels is bringing the sense, feel, smell, and pleasure of the bookkeeping to a halt, but is equally providing wider outreach to readers.
As we enter another era of progress and rather a big move from paper to pixel, let us explore the journey that it underwent to reach our hands. once the selected had access to the paper and now yearly consumption in 2017 stood at 418.79 million metric tones and is predicted to be a market of around 79.6 billion dollars in 2024.
The factors which gave popularity to the world of books was the basic urge to write. In fact, the development of writing, paper, and printing are all equally important component for its success. In ancient times before paper was invented, people used to write on leaves, walls of the caves, the skin of animals, nearly anything and everything they could write on. They specifically were used to make what we call scrolls.
In the Golden Period of the Han dynasty, the invention of paper by Cai Lun in 105 C.E. helped china maintain its archives and research. Han dynasty was known for its inclination towards science and trade, the famous Silk route was the flagship idea of the Han Dynasty in order to connect the trade routes to China.The art of making of paper was confidential and was known to few.This created high demand for paper. It soon became the most traded commodity among the nations on the Silk route. China became a symbol of silk and paper in a few decades.
At first, the elite had access to books but as the art of propagating the ideas to the wider audience progressed and the art of writing itself developed, it became more and more difficult to meet the requirements of the masses. It was then, it was realized that it needs an automated mechanism to print in bulk, in order to meet the demand.
The invention of the printing press in 1439 by Johannes Guttenburg gave popularity to the art of printing in mass production.Gutenberg produced Bible.
It all started from the Bibles being printing in large quantities under Guttenburg invention and later expanded to the masses as the art of making paper and the printing press became more accessible to other classes of the societies.
Part 2…. will be uploaded within this week
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