Exam 10: Books and the Power of Print

made one of the first portable electronic reading devices.

The first printed books were so inexpensive and modest that they were primarily sold to the middle and lower classes.

Unlike most other forms of mass media, book publishing has avoided being dominated by a few huge corporations.

The Chinese were printing books using strips of wood and bamboo long before Gutenberg printed his Bible using movable type.

Which of the following is true about the relationship between the movie and publishing industries?

Johannes Gutenberg is remembered for .

Once strongly influenced by books, television and film now look elsewhere for most of their story ideas.

In the publishing industry, advance money is an early payment to the author that is then deducted from the author's royalties on book sales.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica fell on hard times in the 1990s because .

What is the name of the project in which many libraries and companies like Google and Amazon are joining forces to digitize millions of books with expired copyrights?

According to the textbook, which of the following statements is most likely true about the future of e-books?

In about half of the states, local school districts determine which textbooks will be used by their students.

The first e-book readers introduced in the 1990s were deemed too expensive and too heavy.

A Japanese form of graphic novel is called _.

McGuffey's The Eclectic Reader was used to teach most nineteenth-century elementary school children to read.

According to your textbook, many movies have been inspired by comics and graphic novels because .

Match the types of books with their correct category. -The instant book

Which of the following have instant books been accused of?

Many books from the Middle Ages were called illuminated manuscripts because they were .

The author of the first dime novel was .