medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher Crockett wrote:
>either way, the real advance seems to me to be the difference between sending
>the publisher a text in a digital format --which an editor (with appropriate
>softwhere) can massage into a decent typographical format-- and sending the
>publisher a hard copy typescript which must be entirely re-"typed" by a true
>compositor on a Lineotype machine.
>
>the savings in time and labor between these m.o.s two *must* really be
>enormous.
>
>so, howscome the price of books hasn't gone *down*, as the technology has
>improved??
...because the market will stand current book prices. Now if buyers started
objecting (libraries?)...
Gordon
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