The increased integration of digital technologies throughout the process of book
creation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries lowered the costs of book production,
but those decreased costs have been most significant in the manufacturing and
distribution process, which occurs after the authoring, editing, and design of the book
are complete. This suggests that in the late 20th and early 21st centuries..
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digital technologies made it easier than it had been previously for authors
to write very long works and get them published.
customers generally expected the cost of books to decline relative to the cost
of other consumer goods.
publishers increased the variety of their offerings by printing more unique
titles but also printed fewer copies of each title.
the costs of writing, editing, and designing a book were less affected by the
technologies used than were the costs of manufacturing and
distributing a
book.