Printing books

Description

Printing books involves the mass production of written material in physical form, enabling the wide dissemination of knowledge, culture, and information. This strategy addresses issues of illiteracy, limited access to educational resources, and preservation of information by making texts available to diverse populations. By facilitating affordable and scalable distribution, printing books remedies barriers to learning and communication, supporting education, cultural continuity, and informed societies.

Context

Printing books was made possible by the invention of movable type (popularly credited to Johannes Gutenberg in 1450, whose printing system incorporated a number of practical refinements, but actually Pi Sheng, a Chinese alchemist, was using movable type in 1041).