FILE - Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are pictured in New York in April 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on printing 150 Bibles, but increasing demand motivated him to produce 30 ...

We still speak of “turning a page,” still aspire to be “open books” and recite “chapter and verse,” but our pages are now webpages, our books are now e-books and audiobooks, and our chapters and ...

Open book repository Project Gutenberg has turned thousands of its titles into audiobooks practically overnight using synthetic speech, available now for download or streaming on multiple services.

After Johann Gutenberg died and was buried in 1468, a monument was erected on his grave that called him “Inventor of the art of printing” and “Deserver of the best from all nations and tongues.” No ...

June 20, 2017 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google I’m always trying to save a few bucks when stocking up on books for my beat-up Kindle or my iPad. I’m not a big ...

One of the first things I did when I moved to Austin a decade ago was visit the Gutenberg Bible housed in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. As a bibliophile, the importance of that ...

Just after 2 a.m. Sunday, officers in the area heard shots fired and went into a nearby parking garage in the 200 block of College Street. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German ...