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No. Parchment was made from an inner membrane from a hide, typically sheep, but the sheep were usually slaughtered for meat, not for parchment. Also, while the cost of parchment was high, and this contributed to the cost of books, it was not the most important reason books were expensive. And, in fact, less expensive paper was introduced long before the Middle Ages ended.

Medieval books had to be copied by hand because printing had not been invented. Copying books took a lot of labor, and this was the main expense for book publishing. When the printing press was introduced, the cost of books quickly fell to a small fraction of what it had been.

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