A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Xerography makes the reader both author and publisher in tendency. The highly centralized activity of publishing naturally breaks down into extreme decentralism when anybody can, by means of xerography, assemble printed, or written, or photographic materials which can e supplied with sound tracks.
“The Emperor’s Old Clothes” , (1966), reprinted in McLuhan Unbound #20 (2017), p 12
Year: 1966
Chapter: Xerography
Compiled by William Kuhns
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