Michael Castleman is the author of “The Untold History of Books.” It covers everything from cuneiform to Amazon, and it’s bits of trivia from the literary world. What a book is, what difference the paper makes, who did what first — it’s a lot of fun. Example: it turns out, once upon a time, authors worked without ever expecting to be paid.
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Book It: The untold history of books
