Development of Newspaper Magazines and Books

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing (Wikipedia). Printing is a name used for several processes by which words, pictures, or designs are reproduced on paper, fabrics, metal, or other suitable materials. This consists essentially of making numerous identical reproductions of an original by mechanical means in Newspaper, Magazines, and Books. A newspaper is a publication that appears regularly and frequently, and carries news about a wide variety of current events. Organizations such as trade unions, religious groups, corporations or clubs may have their own newspapers, but the term is more commonly used to refer to daily or weekly publications that bring news of general interest to large portions of the public in a specific geographic area (Wikipedia). Is a written publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an editorial page containing columns which express the personal opinions of writers (Wikipedia). In America, the first newspaper appeared in Boston in 1690, entitled “Public Occurrences”. Published without authority, it was immediately suppressed, its publisher arrested, and all copies were destroyed. Indeed, it remained forgotten until 1845 when the only known surviving example was discovered in the British Library (Stephens, 1994). The first successful newspaper was the Boston News-Letter, begun by postmaster John Campbell in 1704. Although the colonial government heavily subsidized it, the experiment was a near-failure, with very limited circulation (Stephens, 1994). Two more papers made their appearance in the 1720's, in Philadelphia