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February 1993 LSAT Section 1 Question 1

Before the printing press, books could be purchased only in expensive manuscript copies. The printing press produced ...

canada2001 on July 23, 2023

Why is the answer C?

If someone could please clarify, that would be great. Thank you!

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Emil-Kunkin on August 1 at 06:25PM

Hi, the author is trying to prove that the printing press led to a jump in literacy because demand for books jumped after its invention. We are trying to undermine this.

C helps in this task because it gives us a reason to think that there was no jump in literacy. If it were true that few new buyers entered the market as C tells us, then we would have no reason to believe that the printing press led to an immediate jump in literacy.