{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "The Gutenberg Revolution",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "the-gutenberg-revolution",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/john-man/the-gutenberg-revolution",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/john-man/the-gutenberg-revolution.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/john-man/the-gutenberg-revolution.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "John Man",
      "slug": "john-man",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/john-man"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_GB",
  "original_title": null,
  "original_language": null,
  "first_published": "2009-07-30",
  "genres": [
    {
      "code": "JB",
      "heading": "Society and culture: general"
    },
    {
      "code": "KN",
      "heading": "Industry and industrial studies"
    },
    {
      "code": "NHB",
      "heading": "General and world history"
    },
    {
      "code": "NHD",
      "heading": "European history"
    },
    {
      "code": "PDZ",
      "heading": "Popular science"
    },
    {
      "code": "T",
      "heading": "Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes"
    }
  ],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/transworld-digital/john-man/the-gutenberg-revolution_978-14-0904-552-6-f3ee5903.webp?v=2026-10-12%2023%3A32%3A04",
  "description": "In 1450, all Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand. By 1500 they were printed, and numbered in their millions. The invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen. Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against a background of plague and religious upheaval to bring his remarkable invention to light. His story is full of paradox: his ambition was to reunite all Christendom, but his invention shattered it; he aimed to make a fortune, but was cruelly denied the fruits of his life's work. Yet history remembers him as a visionary; his discovery marks the beginning of the modern world.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "The Gutenberg Revolution",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/john-man/the-gutenberg-revolution/9781409045526",
      "publisher": "Transworld Digital",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "ebook",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-14-0904-552-6",
      "pages": null,
      "published": "2010-10-31",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/transworld-digital/john-man/the-gutenberg-revolution_978-14-0904-552-6-f3ee5903.webp?v=2026-10-12%2023%3A32%3A04"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Gutenberg Revolution",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/john-man/the-gutenberg-revolution/9780553819663",
      "publisher": "bantam",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-05-5381-966-3",
      "pages": 304,
      "published": "2009-07-30",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/bantam/john-man/the-gutenberg-revolution_978-05-5381-966-3-f3ee5903.webp?v=2026-10-16%2003%3A55%3A05"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}