Most accounts of the printing revolution credit Gutenberg's mid-fifteenth- century innovations with rapidly democratizing access to books across Europe. Recent book historians have shown, however, that printed books were extremely expensive for decades after Gutenberg, available mainly to wealthy clergy, merchants, and university scholars. ______ , significant democratization of reading did not arrive until the sixteenth-century explosion of cheap pamphlets and vernacular translations, well after the technology itself had matured.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
- A
However
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In other words
- C
Likewise
- D
Granted
Explanation
The third sentence restates and clarifies the consequence of the second. "In other words" signals restatement. The others do not capture the clarifying paraphrase.