Need data for the effective 'reach' of publishers throughout history.
I'm putting together a presentation where I need to demonstrate the
degree to which technology has, through the ages, enabled publishers
of content to reach an ever-increasing audience.
The points in history/technology evolution I would like to use are:
a) illuminated manuscripts/book creation by hand
b) early printing press
c) late 1800s printing press/early newspapers
d) radio, perhaps in the 1950s
e) TV, say the 70s or 80s
f) Internet
For each of these data points, I will need a source, of course.
Some suggestions for how to measure some of the items above are below.
Keep in mind, these are just suggestions. If you come up with a more
representative data point for what I'm looking for, that's even
better.
a) manuscripts: how about the number of books produced by the most
prolific monastery over the course of a century?
b) early printing press: how many copies of the gutenberg bible were
there? if there's another book which was created even more times, what
was it, and how many copies of it were made in a given time period?
c) late printing press: what was the peak ciculation of a widely
distributed newspaper in the late 1800s? Like the biggest british
paper, or the new york times, or something else?
d) radio: what was the most people that ever listened to a radio
broadcast up through the 1950s? How many people listened to the War of
the Worlds?
e) TV: what is the most number of people that ever watched a TV event
at the same time? a superbowl, or the moon walk, or a pope's
papification?
f) Internet: How many users use the largest websites?
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