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Originally Posted by Quexos
No more of an elite than paper books created, if one considers there is even such an elite.
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I was just thinking that paper backs (which displaced the pulp magazines I understand) did make reading more democratic if that's the word. I remember one book posted here in the Library had a copy of the ad posted for it when the book was new in 1914 and it cost (I think) $1.30 or something like that and that was probably a very expensive purchase for a time when .5 or .10 would buy you a meal in a restaurant. Of course the average wage was probably not very high back then either so that $1.30 was probably a large investment for the average person. Certainly even the hard cover books became cheaper in price after Gutenberg developed his movable type and printing press back in the 1450's. Now we've begun to go beyond that to ebooks. I wonder how low the cost of a book will drop?