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ID: LSAT-LR-009
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Main Point
Difficulty level: Easy

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It is often said that the spread of printing destroyed the manuscript trade. In fact the number of scribes at work in the university towns rose for two generations after the first presses were set up, because printed books created a demand for hand-made indexes, commentaries and corrections that no press could supply. The trade did not collapse; it changed what it sold.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

AThe manuscript trade proved more resilient than any other trade that the spread of printing affected.

BPrinted books could not be produced without the hand-made indexes, commentaries and corrections that scribes in the university towns went on supplying.

CThe spread of printing did not destroy the manuscript trade but changed the kind of work that trade sold.

DThose who claim that printing destroyed the manuscript trade have not looked at the scribes who went on working in the university towns.

EThe number of scribes working in the university towns rose for two generations after the first presses were set up, because printed books created work no press could do.

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