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Video: Your Path to Fame and Fortune
If you had told someone in 1452, the year that Gutenberg invented the printing press, that you now intended to make a living as a writer, he or she would have told you that you were out of your mind. As everyone knew, books were written by monks, and there were perhaps a thousand books in all of Europe. Plus, all the monk jobs were either taken or very hard to get. “Kid, this is no way to make a living,” the person would have said.
Only 30 years after Gutenberg’s invention, there were more than 15 million books in circulation in Europe, and suddenly, writing books was very much not only a way to earn a living ...
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