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The British Library has digitized its two original 1454 Gutenberg Bibles, the first major book printed in the West.

Comparisons to Gutenberg

The Information Age and the Printing Press
James A. Dewar

A Critical Examination of Claims Concerning The ‘Impact’ of Print
Daniela Lesley Evans

Three Prior Revolutions in the Evolution of Human Communication and Cognition: Language, Writing And Print
from Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge
by Stevan Harnad

The Internet and Gutenberg
By Robert J. Samuelson
Newsweek International, January 24, 2000

In history's sweep, it may also rank behind the car, the plane and antibiotics—among others.

The Internet and the Death of the News Monopoly
by J. Orlin Grabbe

From Movable Type to Data Deluge (no longer available: Feb 01)
by John Gehl and Suzanne Douglas

Instant, global news and the hypertext Web are carrying us into realms of information access that alter knowledge foundations laid by Gutenberg's printing technology.

Whereas books, newspapers, radio, and television are all essentially 'one to many' broadcast media..., the Internet allows a surfer to exercise complete control over what is now an 'interaction with' rather than a 'reception of' news or information. ... Whereas the communication process has in the past typically implied an assumption that the message sender had more information than the message receiver, now the relationship is effectively reversed. The one with control is not the one with the message, but the one with the mouse.

A Comparison of the Internet Revolution and the Printing Revolution
by David Patrick Chott

How the Secondary Orality of the Electronic Age Can Awaken Us to the Primary Orality of Antiquity or What Hypertext Can Teach Us About the Bible with Reflections on the Ethical and Political Issues of the Electronic Frontier
by Robert M. Fowler

Orality isn't just a quaint antiquarian area of study anymore -- it is an apt description of the world into which we're all hurtling ever deeper every day.

"From Papyrus to Cyberspace", an hour-long March 1999 Cambridge Forum presentation in RealAudio format (*.ram)

Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World
by Bruce Jones

The period between the 13th and 16th centuries saw the rise of a print-dominated society, one that moved away from the Church's monopoly of information that existed during the manuscript book period.