Education in the entire Habsburg monarchy was substantially changed by publishing of the General School Regulations on December 6, 1774 and by the introduction of compulsory school attendance. The task of the publication of textbooks was entrusted to the school commission and schools residing in the provincial cities. The privilege of publishing school books was granted to the Brno Normal School on February 20, 1775. The Brno Normal School was to ensure the printing and distribution of school books and teaching materials. Since it did not have its own printer, as was the case with the Prague or Vienna Normal School, several hired printers based in Brno, but also in Olomouc and Znojmo were also responsible for printing school books. The printers were hired through the bookbinder Jakub Strassmann, who was appointed chief editor of a normal school at the end of 1775 and was in this position until the beginning of the 19th century. In Brno, normal school orders were shared by the Emanuel Svoboda printing press and his successor Jan Silvestre Siedler, the Franz Josef Neumann printing press and his heirs and the Josef Georg Trassler printing press, which gradually succeeded in building a monopoly position.