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WE’RE COMPLETING THE GUTENBERG REVOLUTION
Welcome to BOOKS 4 EVERYONE, dedicated to completing the Gutenberg Revolution. Before Gutenberg’s invention in 1439 of moveable metal type for printing, it took about three years for a moderately well-off family to save up for the parchment, copying, illuminating, and binding of a Bible.
Gutenberg’s invention dropped the price of printing books. By 1500 there were publishing houses in every city in Europe and and since then books became affordable in every language where it’s profitable for publishers to market those books. That leaves out 95% of the world’s 7000 languages.
Across the world, indigenous people abandon their ancestral languages because those languages offer no economic benefits.
If people abandon their language for economic reasons, then economic reasons must be found to make them want to keep their language.
BOOKS 4 EVERYONE is a one-stop market for books in indigenous languages. Authors of the books we publish have access to the books as PDFs free of charge. Others pay $5, with contributions going directly to the authors of the books or their heirs.
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We are always looking for passionate individuals to join our mission to protect and preserve endangered languages.
There are a range of ways in which someone can help us, from volunteering, to donation, to management, to research.
Find out more here and don’t hesitate to reach out if you believe you can support us: