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After the invention of the printing press in about1440, it became possible to print the news. Printed news came out firs in short one-page reports. These early news reports were not very accurate. In Germany, for example, the reports printed news of the horrifying crimes of Count Dracula, although most of this news was not true. The first real newspapers began to appear in England and France the early 1600s. In 1690, the first newspaper in the United States started in Boston, and by 1752, Canada had its first newspaper. More newspapers appeared in North America in the early 1800s. However, not very many people read them because most people could not afford to buy a newspaper in the United States was six cents, which was a lot of money for most people in those days. In addition, most people at that time were still illiterate.