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the printed book and the manuscript. Yet both the producer
and consumer of the printed page conceived of it as a direct
continuation of the manuscript. In the same way the
nineteenth century newspaper underwent complete revolution
with the advent of the telegraph. The mechanical printed page
was crossed with a new organic form that changed layout as it
changed politics and society.
Today with the arrival of automation, the ultimate
extension of the electro-magnetic form to the organization of
production, we are trying to cope with such new organic
production as if it were mechanical mass production. In 1500
nobody knew how to market or distribute the mass-produced
printed book. It was handled in the old manuscript channels.
And the manuscript, like any other handicraft produce, was
sold in the way in which we now handle “old masters.” That is,