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"For books, issuing from those primal founts of heresy and rebellion, the printing presses, have done more to shape the course of human affairs than any other product of the human mind because they are the carriers of ideas and it is ideas that change the world. Newspapers, magazines and other products of the press have played a similar role, but it is the book, a less transitory product, which gives permanence, or in some cases the illusion of it, to ideas and permits them to grow, flower and multiply into intellectual infinity."
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—A History of Book Publishing in the
United States
John Tebbel, R.R. Bowker, 1972.
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