Boktrykkerkunst og pris

Hvor mye billigere ble bøker etter Gutenberg? Mye:

In 1483, a printing shop in Florence, run by nuns from the Convent of San Jacopo Di Ripoli, charged three florins for printing 1 025 copies of a new translation of Plato's Dialogues. A scribe would have charged about one florin for copying the work, but he would have produced only a single copy.

Dette er fra side 69 i Nicholas Carrs The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.