History of Publishing
As printing became more prominent and
widely accepted, it also became more commonplace. Following World War
II, a great deal of machines were put into action stimulating
circulation. Just as the distribution and number of printed texts
expanded to reach a variety of audiences and range of topics and
knowledge, so the world of texts online is expanding rapidly. And while
there are not near the amount of constraints of wars and technology
upon production, the future of online publishing may change our world.
How we read and learn from the face of the screen staring at us as well
as how we read from the printed page is changing. While printing has
risen to serve as a prominent form of communication with online
publishing speeding quickly to meet the needs of the literate world,
there are still, and will remain to be, significant differences between
print and on-line publishing.