The discovery and establishment of
printing of books with moveable type marks a paradigm shift in way information was transferred in our society. The impact of printing is comparable to development of language, invention of alphabet, and invention of computer as far as its effects on society.A great transformation to our culture was brought due to discovery of printing press that apparently enlightened us on what’s was happening around us through informations, books and other printed documents. Which becomes evident as process was discovered.
Printing press also plays a wider participation with distribution and duplication of bible copies. Before in Korea and China, there were no texts similar to Bible which could guarantee a printer return on high capital investment of a printing press, and so primary form of printing was wood block printing which was more suited for short runs of texts for which return was uncertain.
On other point, because of printing press, authorship also became more meaningful. It was suddenly important who had said or written what, and what precise formulation and time of composition was. This allowed exact citing of references, producing rule, "One Author, one work (title), one piece of information". Before, author was less important, since a copy of Aristotle made in Paris might not be identical to one made in Bologna. For many works prior to printing press, name of author was entirely lost.
