The paperback is a Zwickauer: On the 250th birthday of the world’s first paperback publisher, August Schumann

Handy reading material for on the go has become an indispensable part of everyday life in a modern, mobile society. Whether in digital form on a smartphone, tablet or Kindle or in the form of the good old paperback. When it comes to its history, Saxony is indisputably an important place. But who invented it? Can also be found in practically every household today, …