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For the real constraint on publication initially was paper, not presses. Before the invention of wood-based paper, paper was produced from cloth. Cloth, however, was extremely expensive. While a persistent myth is that one source for this cloth was Egyptian mummies (Scott D. N. Cook, “Technological Revolutions and the Gutenberg Myth,” in Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors, edited by Mark Stefik [1996], 75), there is no support for this claim. See Joseph A. Dane, “The Curse of the Mummy Paper,” Printing History 17 (1996): 18. Nonetheless, the shortage of paper is well established (ibid., 18–19). I am grateful to Consuele Dutschke for help with this history.