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Accompanying the Industrial Revolution was the launch of the first magazines and newspapers, which were seen as a socially acceptable alternative to reading books. As with books, however, the high cost of these publications and relatively low literacy rates restricted readership to the upper and middle-classes. In order to obtain information about news at a national and international level, the rest of society relied on word-of-mouth and having pamphlets read to them in public places such as inns and taverns.
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Chaston, I. (2012). The Media. In: Public Sector Reformation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379350_4
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