{"product_id":"an-inky-business-by-matthew-j-shaw-9781789143867","title":"An Inky Business","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Inky Business\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the making and printing of news. It is a history of ink, paper, printing press and type, and of those who made and read newspapers in Britain, continental Europe, and America from the British Civil Wars to the Battle of Gettysburg in the United States nearly 200 years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut it is also an account of what news was and how the idea of news became central to public life. Newspapers ranged from purveyors of high seriousness to carriers of scurrilous gossip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur current obsession with 'fake news', the worrying revelations or hints about how money, power, and technology shape and control the press and flows of what is believed to be genuine information, has dark early-modern echoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853967544556,"sku":"9781789143867","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27967713482824.jpg?v=1759228594","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/an-inky-business-by-matthew-j-shaw-9781789143867","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}