The introduction of print-on-demand technology means small presses on both sides of the Atlantic do not have to be tied to large and costly print runs.
The introduction of printing into southern Myanmar led to a change in Burmese literature.
This is not quite true: for example, most of the surviving books of hours (lavish private devotional manuscript books) date from the period after the introduction of printing.
Nonetheless, after the introduction of printing in Europe in the mid-15th century, a clear distinction arose between handwriting and more elaborate forms of scripts and lettering.
Thus, although handwritten books could not be reproduced in quantity or with complete uniformity, they did survive the introduction of printing.
Most of the encyclopaedias issued before the introduction of printing into Europe had been arranged in a methodical or classified form that is, ordered systematically by subject.
Wrestling as a martial skill was taught to the knights of the Holy Roman Empire, and wrestling instruction books appeared in manuscript before the introduction of printing and thereafter in print.
Following a period of interest in classical drama and the introduction of printing, in the late 15th century there appeared Juan del Encina, the founder of modern Spanish drama.
He begins in the sixth century A.D., with the Christian monks who adapted the Roman alphabet to the Anglo-Saxon language, and continues chronologically, with explanations of how English spelling has been influenced by French and Latin, the introduction of printing, the rise of etymology, and the huge expansion of vocabulary fuelled by a globalized, digitized culture.
The unification of Spain in 1479 and the establishment of its overseas empire, which began with Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World (1492 93), contributed to the emergence of the Renaissance in Spain, as did the introduction of printing to the country (1474) and the cultural influence of Italy.
"Since the introduction of printing," he wrote in "The Critic as Artist," "there has been a tendency in literature to appeal more and more to the eye, and less and less to the ear which is really the sense which, from the standpoint of pure art, it should seek to please, and by whose canons of pleasure it should abide always".
