Are you struggling to make a decent monthly income with Amazon KDP? Read this... Printing books has come a long way. Johannes Gutenberg's printing press made it possible to manufacture large numbers of books for relatively little cost for the first time. Books and other printed matter consequently became available to a wide general audience, greatly contributing to the spread of knowledge, discoveries, and literacy in Renaissance Europe. It allowed ideas and news to be shared quickly which helped usher in the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific revolution. Gutenberg's press was the combined effort of several discoveries and inventions. The printing press was built around the traditional screw press, a precursor to today's drill press, with an added matrix on which individually-cast letters and symbols could be arranged to form the desired text. But the impact of this invention goes much further than that! ...