Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08737_Field_TCGG T502.txt

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survived to our day; “Actually, of course, there is very little real
difference between the fifteenth-century manuscripts and the
incunabula—and the student of the earliest printing would be
well advised if he viewed the new invention, as the first printers
did, as simply another form of writing—in this case,
“artificialiter scribere.” (p. 16) The “horseless carriage” was for
a time in the same ambiguous state as the printed book.

     Bühler’s data about the peaceful co-existence between
scribe and printer will be new and welcome to many readers:

          What, then, became of the book-scribes? What
     happened to the various categories of writers of literary
     works, who practised their trade prior to 1450, once the
     printing press was established? The professionals
     previously employed by the large scriptoria seem to have