As in 1914 but to an even greater extent, the demand for reading matter for both instruction and entertainment grew enormously.
As the development of the railways encouraged people to travel, a demand arose for reading material to lessen the tedium of the long journeys.
The outstanding intellectual contribution of the period was the novel, whose development was spurred by increases in literacy and in the demand for reading materials.
The region's paper history dates to the years following the Civil War, when mills sprung up on along the Fox River to feed the industrializing nation's demand for reading and writing material and disposable towels.
And not just talk: major publishers, online booksellers and high-tech middlemen spent hundreds of millions of dollars to lay the groundwork for selling digital books, even though demand for reading books on computer screens remains uncertain to say the least.
As a consequence of altered reading habits, it has been recognized in many countries that there is a need for teaching and evaluating these new literacies demanded for reading and learning on the Internet (Forzani 2013); the digital reading part in PISA 2009 can be seen as one way to meet this need.
Maybe sales for traditional formats, like books, aren't low because the demand for reading is low but because the supply of written content in our everyday lives is at an all-time high (Take that, Steve Jobs).
Most of the patients who refused to accept LVAs for being too young were preschoolers, and they shared a number of common characteristics such as poor independence, noncompliance and less visual demand for reading and seeing a blackboard.
The German state granted the Turkish government's demand to potentially prosecute the comedian for reading his insulting poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on German public TV and the international scandal known as the "Böhmermann affair" has entered its second round.
Shortage of paper necessitated rationing to two-thirds of prewar consumption in the case of Britain, while from hundreds of thousands of those in the armed forces came a tremendous demand for light reading.
