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Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Although Leiden was not a large commercial center, the first used-book

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Kindly focus on this part..

Historian Bert van Selm suggests this innovation occurred there because Leiden was then the only major Dutch city where booksellers were not subject to aguild, 
It means the guild would impose many restrcitions . Since there was no guild , it became easier to organize the auction.
B should be theanswer.
partiban98 wrote:
­For the question "Which of the following statements about the Netherlands at the end of the sixteenth century would, if true, most strongly support van Selm’s suggestion mentioned in the first paragraph of the passage?", I answered (A)  The booksellers’ guilds also included printers in their membership.

My reasoning was that,
1) From the passage, van Selm suggests the innovation of used book auctions occurred in Leiden because it was  the only major Dutch city in 1599 where booksellers were not subject to a guild.
2) So clearly van Selm suggests the guilds had a motive behind suppressing the spread
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Statistics : Posted by sayan640 • on 08 Mar 2024, 12:08 • Replies 2 • Views 1249



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