OT: improvement in paper was Re: The iPad: What is a Gutenberg moment, anyway?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Publishers who could avoid the rag trade might have had a very different
view.

DanG

On 4/10/2010 8:53 AM, Amy West wrote:
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>> Date:    Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:31:48 -0400
>> From:    Dan Goncharoff<thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: Re: The iPad: What is a Gutenberg moment, anyway?
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>> A big technological change that hasn't been addressed yet is the
>> improvement in paper, from rag to wood pulp, and the development of
>> continuous rolls.
>> DanG
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> Conservators and book workers and book artists will tell you that
> going from cotton rag to wood pulp paper was no improvement. But,
> yes, the development of rolls of paper is necessary for the roller
> (rotary?) press.
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