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Originally Posted by kennyc
True, but that was also in a time when it was actually quite difficult to MAKE A COPY, eh?
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Not really or we wouldn't have those things still with us. It wasn't difficult just time consuming. Sit down with a pencil and paper or chisel and stone tablet, whatever medium you like and you'll discover you can do it if you think its worth doing. And the printing press was invented in Chaucer's lifetime. Before that you'd get a cadre of monks, write it down yourself, memorize the story maybe give it your own embellishments at the same time, painters trained by making copies of the maters, the difference today is making a copy is fast thus allowing a publisher to have a million copies ready to sell on release day for a big name author or in the case of a digital file having as many copies as are wanted on demand.