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Keeping a 'modicum of decency'

Longview Daily News - Jan 15, 2012
Questions involving obscenity and profanity have been in front of publishers forever — maybe since one of Johann Gutenberg's assistants first discovered the words he could form playing around with the boss' new movable type. We think our experience at ...

Where Gutenberg worked

Business Insider - Jan 21, 2012
According to Albert Kapr's definitive biography, Johann Gutenberg: The Man and his Invention, among the earliest nonreligious publications produced in the great man's shop by his successors—Johann Fust and his son-in-law Peter Schöffer—were political ...

story speaks of the King James translation of the Bible

NewsWithViews.com - Jan 1, 2012
Everyone could read the Bible and thanks to Johann Gutenberg, everyone could afford one. In its own way and for its own reasons reasons, ancient Jewish wisdom warns us about translations. It stresses that when you translate something technically ...

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Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press

by: Bruce Koscielniak
If a book was published 600 years ago, it would have been copied out by hand by a scribe in a monastery and probably would have taken months to produce. But thanks to Johann Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, modern printing was born and nowadays it can take only a few seconds to print a book. Gutenberg invented the printing press as well as a new type of ink and a new way to cast type.

Learn the incredible story of Johann Gutenberg and the history of early printing and publishing.
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How We Got The Bible

by: Rose Publishing
How We Got the Bible - increase your faith in the reliability of the Bible
Few stories in history are as amazing and as touching as the story of how the Bible was written and became the book we have today. How We Got the Bible will take you through the remarkable story that shows the faithfulness, courage, and sacrifice that was required to make the Bible available to us today.

How We Got the Bible eBook can be read in 30 minutes or less and includes:
• A time line of events and people in the history of the Scriptures.
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Gutenberg's Gift

by: Nancy Willard
Johann Gutenberg invented movable type, hoping to make printed books available to all who wished to read them. Now Newbery Award winner Nancy Willard weaves Gutenberg's life and work into a fanciful narrative poem in which the inventor works hard to complete his first printed Bible in time to give it to his wife for Christmas. Full color.
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Who in the World Was The Secretive Printer?: The Story of Johannes Gutenberg

by: Robert Beckham, Jed Mickle

Discover the intriguing story of Johannes Gutenberg in this junior-level biography from Peace Hill Press.

Johannes Gutenberg spent his days shut away, working on a mysterious project. His neighbors wondered what he was doing in his metal shop. Why did he need so much money? Was he making expensive gold jewelry? Weapons? Armor? What project could possibly take up so many hours of Johannes’s time? And how did his invention change the world? 

Outstanding illustrations from Jed Mickle complement the fabulous story, giving second-grade readers insight into the life of this influential figure.
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