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Mechanized printing destroyed the scribe industry
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Prior to the printing press, copying a book meant paying a professional scribe to manually write out thousands of pages over several months. Mechanization crashed the price of books by ninety percent virtually overnight, triggering mass panic among the elite who were horrified that commoners could suddenly afford to read dissenting opinions.
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