Amusing Ourselves to Death

What are some factors which accounted for print being a pervasive and dominant medium of communication in seventeenth and eighteenth century in America?

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But from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, printed matter was virtually all that was available. There were no movies to see, radio to hear, photographic displays to look at, records to play. There was no television. Public business was channeled into and expressed through print, which became the model, the metaphor and the measure of all discourse.
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