Standage reviews the past two millennia. In our digital age, authors proliferate, publishers are in big trouble, copyrights are abused and violated, books sell like any market product, everyone in the world of writing is looking for visibility to make money. Today, as always, a kind of ancient agony, the same agony of the time of Cicero in Rome, of that of the seventeenth century in England and of France before the Revolution. Just read the story in a non-superficial way.
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