How Does Printing Affect Society

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Printing has impact and affect society in many different ways. It has made life alot easier for us and also got things done really quickly. During the Middle Ages books were done by hand and also by woodblock printing, which took a long period of time. As a result of books, taking a extreme amount of time, books were really expensive and also very rare. People that had an abundance of money were the only ones that bought books, so only an insufficient percentage of the world knew how to read and write. But since Gutenberg printing press, books became more affordable, it allowed the general public to have the opportunity to buy books.

The greatest influence the printing press had was the speed of producing books, newspapers, magazines etc. It was a lengthy and tiring process to make books but the printing press allowed a large quantity of books to be printed in a short amount of time. Therefore the more books that were printed, the more young
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Printing has allowed us to communicate and exchange information around us. Before the printing press information was spread through the exchanges of letter, which sometimes was not received. Books that were made with information and knowledge was a more accurate way to communicate with a person and also the general public. Books had allowed people to read for fun and also criticise someone else's work. Printing has given people new ideas to develop technology around them.

Even though printing had a dramatic effect on our society, it also had a negative effect as well. Just as positive and good can come out of printed media and spread throughout the world easily, so can awful and negative information. These negative information can become a huge problem for business and even for people. A business can lose money and their clients can drop and people can commit suicide (due to false