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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
Another thing that most of us are forgetting, because we are children of our times, is that, like so many other things which we think are eternal because we have known them all our lives, like telephones, CDs, computers, people living from writing books is a relatively new phenomenon, and is a lot younger than the invention of the printing press which made it possible. I would go so far as to say that it is largely a 20th century phenomenon.
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This really is not true. Numerous authors in the 19th century wrote to make a living: Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott are two examples.