Publishing Timeline Outline

"Attic Nights" : Lack of Arrangement Makes its Own Kind of Arrangement
(Circa 180 CE)

One of the Few Surviving Sources for the Administrative Structure of the Late Roman Empire
(Circa 420 CE)

During the Middle Ages Book Production is Concentrated in Monasteries
(Circa 610 – 1200)

Massive Byzantine Encyclopedic Dictionary
(Circa 950)

The Earliest Universal Bibliography
(988 – 990)

The Pecia System
(April 4, 1228)

Renaissance Humanists Hunt for the Manuscripts of Roman Authors
(Circa 1325 – 1450)

From About 1440 -1470 the Production of Manuscript Books Increased; From 1471 to 1490, with the Increase of Printed Book Production, Manuscript Book Production Declined
(Circa 1440 – 1475)

The First Concordance of the Hebrew Bible
(1448)

The First Printed Newsletters
(Circa 1450)

Possibly the First Printed Edition of the Most Widely Used Medieval Grammar
(Circa 1454)

One of the First Three Printed Editions of Classical Texts
(1465)

Probably One of the Three Earliest Printed Editions of a Classical Text
(Circa 1465)

The First Printed Editions of Virgil
(1469 – 1470)

Published to Raise Money to Repel the Turks
(April 1471)

The Earliest Printings of Plato in the Fifteenth Century
(1472 – 1475)

The First Medical or Scientific Treatise to be First Published as a Printed Book Rather than a Manuscript
(April 21, 1472)

The First Book Printed in English
(1473 – 1474)

Probably the Best-Selling 15th Century Printed Book by a Living Author
(1474)

Probably the First Printed Civil Law Book
(January 26, 1475)

The First Dated Book Printed in Hebrew
(February 17 – February 18, 1475)

The First "Modern" Title Page
(1476)

The First Book Printed in French
(April 18, 1476)

The First Dated Book Printed in England
(November 18, 1477)

The First Printed Edition of Dioscorides
(July 1478)

A Typical Print Run
(1480)

The Earliest Printing of Any Book of the Bible in Greek
(1481)

The Most Famous Textbook Ever Published
(May 25, 1482)

The Earliest Medical Work Printed in English
(Circa 1483)

The First Edition of Plato's Opera, Printed by the First Press to Employ Women
(1484 – 1485)

The First Printed Haggadah
(1486)

The First Illustrated Travel Book: An International Bestseller
(February 11, 1486)

The Earliest Known Type Specimen
(April 1, 1486)

The First Known Author's Copyright
(September 1, 1486 – May 21, 1487)

Handbook for Witch-Hunters and Inquisitors
(April 1487)

The First Complete Printed Hebrew Bible
(April 22, 1488)

The First Eyewitness Report to Become a Bestseller
(February 15, 1493)

The Nuremberg Chronicle
(June 12 – December 23, 1493)

The "Book Fool"
(February 11, 1494)

The First English Book Printed on Paper Made in England
(1495 – 1496)

The Aldine Theocritus: Scholarly Compromises in Running a Publishing House
(February 1495 – 1496)

The Editio Princeps of Aristotle in Greek
(November 1495 – June 1498)

Early Printing in Hebrew
(1500)

Aldus's "Rules of the Modern Academy" Known From a Single Surviving Copy
(Circa 1500)

The Transition from Latin to the Vernacular in the 16th Century
(Circa 1500 – 1600)

A Census of Print Runs for Fifteenth-Century Books
(1500)

The First English Book on Preparing and Carving Meat, Game and Fish
(1508)

The Earliest English Newsbook
(September 1513)

The First Illustrated Manual on the Art of Writing
(1514)

The First Book Printed on the Continent of Africa
(1516)

The First Printed Edition of the Complete Babylonian Talmud
(1519 – 1523)

Interpreting Roman Architecture in the Language of the Renaissance
(July 15, 1521)

First Printed Edition of the Qur'an in Arabic, of Which One Copy Survived
(August 9, 1537 – August 9, 1538)

Pre-Publication Censorship in England
(November 16, 1538)

First Printed Edition of the Latin Translation of the Qur'an
(1542 – 1543)

A Condensation or Road-Map to the Fabrica
(June 1543)

Classic of Mannerist Book Illustration and Printing
(June 28, 1560)

The First Bio-Bibliography
(1562)

The First Catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair
(1564)

Renaissance Goldsmithing and Sculpting
(1568)

The First Extended Series of Prints Attempting to Depict Great Events of the Recent Past
(1569 – 1570)

The First Book Printed in the Middle East
(1577)

Consolidating and Amplifying the Regulation of Printing in England
(June 23, 1586)

The First European Newspaper
(1605)

The First Editor's and Printer's Manual
(1608)

Erasable Paper from 1609
(1609)

The First Publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets
(May 20, 1609)

The First Private Newspaper Published in English
(1621)

Literary and Medical Classic on One of the Most Common Human Ailments
(1621)

Forerunner of the English Newspaper
(May 23, 1622)

The First Regularly Printed English Newspaper
(1624)

Discovery and Experimental Proof of the Circulation of the Blood
(1628)

The First Weekly Magazine in France
(May 30, 1631)

Precursor of the Royal Society
(August 23, 1633 – June 10, 1641)

A Decree of the Star Chamber Concerning Printing July 11, 1637
(July 11, 1637)

Abolition of the Star Chamber Stimulates Publishing
(1641)

The First Book Printed on Malta
(1643)

The British Government Attempts to Re-Establish Censorship
(June 16, 1643)

"For Books are Not Absolutely Dead Things; but Doe Contain a Potencie of Life . . . ."
(1644)

The Earliest Bibliography of Bibliographies
(1664)

The First Scientific Journal
(January 5, 1665)

The Oldest Continuous Journal of an Academy of Science
(March 6, 1665)

The First Scientific Book Written by a Native Latin American to be Published in the Western Hemisphere
(1681)

The First Comprehensive Printing Manual
(1683 – 1684)

Locke's Method of Indexing Commonplace Books
(1685 – 1706)

The First Reading Primer Designed for the American Colonies
(1687 – 1690)

The First Newspaper Published in North America, Suppressed after a Single Issue
(September 25, 1690)

The End of Pre-Publication Censorship Stimulates Newspapers and Other Publishing
(1695)

Baroque Anatomy and Plagiarism (?)
(1698)

England's First Daily Newspaper
(March 11, 1702)

The First English Encyclopedia Arranged in Alphabetical Order
(1704 – 1710)

The First "Successful" Newspaper in North America
(April 24, 1704)

The Statute of Anne: The First Copyright Statute
(1709)

Famous Proofreaders and Press Correctors
(1716)

To Protect the More than 4000 Manuscript Copyists of Constantinople
(1727)

The First Natural History of North American Flora and Fauna
(1729 – 1747)

The First General-Interest Periodical and the First to Use the Word "Magazine" to Indicate a Storehouse of Knowledge
(January 1731)

The First Periodical Published in English on Rare Books & Manuscripts
(1738)

The First Magazine Published in North America
(January 1741)

The First Periodical Written for Women by a Woman
(April 1744 – May 1746)

The First Printed Book Specifically for the Amusement of Children: No Copies of the First Edition Survive
(June 18, 1744)

Probably the Most-Widely Read English Cookery Book of the 18th Century
(1747)

Mechanical and Industrial Arts of 18th Century France
(1749 – 1814)

The Central Enterprise of the French Enlightenment
(1751 – 1780)

A Typographic Masterpiece, & the First Book Printed Partially on Wove Paper
(May 5, 1757)

Candide, ou l'Optimism
(1759)

Encyclopaedia Britannica Begins
(December 1768 – 1771)

The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
(1769 – 1794)

Probably the Most Ambitious Editorial Enterprise before the Wikipedia
(1773 – 1782)

The First Chemistry Journal
(1778)

Operations of a French Enlightenment Printing Shop Depicted
(Circa 1782)

Prospectus for a Monumental European Encyclopedia
(1782)

166.5 Volumes of Text but No Comprehensive Index!
(1782 – 1832)

Origin of "The Times" of London
(1785)

The First Historical Society in the United States
(January 24, 1791)

Printing Manual for the French Revolution
(1793)

The Metric System
(1793 – 1794)

Celestial Mechanics
(1799 – 1827)

Phasing Out Latin as the International Language
(1800)

The Prince of Mathematicians
(1801)

The First Book Printed in Australia
(1802)

The First Newspaper in Australia Begins Publication
(March 5, 1803)

The First World Atlas Printed by Muslims
(April 1803 – March 1804)

The First Book Printed Entirely by Lithography
(1808 – 1817)

The First Edition Bindings of Cloth-Backed Paper Boards
(1810 – 1820)

The First Illustrated Book Published in Australia
(1813)

The First Literary Magazine Published in the United States
(1815)

The First Book Printed in Persia (Iran)
(1817)

The First American Printer's Manual
(1818)

The First Cloth Edition Bindings
(Circa 1821)

The First Indigenous Arabic Press in Egypt
(December 1822)

A Press in Malta to Print Books in Arabic & Turkish
(1825 – 1842)

Roughly 600 Books Year are Produced in the U.K.
(Circa 1825)

The First Newspaper Published in South America
(November 7, 1825)

The First "Livre d'Artiste"
(1828)

The Braille System of Printing and Reading for the Blind
(1829)

Case Bindings which Allow Mechanized Stamping
(Circa 1830)

The First Press to Operate in Palestine since about 1577
(1832)

Non-Euclidean Geometry Independently Discovered
(1832 – 1833)

The Penny Magazine
(1832 – 1845)

The Earliest Known Printed Dust Jacket (Now Lost)
(1832)

The First Complete Printed Edition in Arabic of the Thousand and One Nights
(1835)

The Greatest Private Collector of Manuscripts in the Nineteenth Century
(1837 – 1871)

Invention of "Illuminated Printing"
(1838 – 1840)

Invention of Anastatic Printing
(October 1841 – October 25, 1845)

The First Illustrated News Publication
(May 12, 1842)

The First Periodical Typeset, Printed and Bound Entirely by Machine
(December 17, 1842)

The First Commercial Christmas Card
(May 1, 1843)

The First Book Illustrated with Photographs
(October 1843 – 1853)

News of the World Begins Publication
(October 1, 1843)

The First English Book Publisher to Offer Printed Color Plates at a Low Price for the Popular Market
(1844 – 1845)

The First Photographically Illustrated Book Commercially Published.
(June 1844 – April 1846)

The Railroad also Becomes an Information Distribution Network
(November 1, 1848)

"Notes and Queries" Begins Publication
(November 3, 1849)

The Circulation of "The Times" of London Reaches 38,000
(1850)

The New York Times Begins Publication
(September 18, 1851)

The First Newspaper Printed in Color
(December 22, 1855)

Origins of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
(1857)

One of the Major Publishing Successes of the 19th Century
(1859 – October 1861)

On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection
(November 24, 1859)

The Largest Dictionary in Book Form
(1863)

The First Printer Authorized to the Print the Qur'an in Constantinople
(1866)

The Periodic Law and the Periodic Table
(1869)

Forest and Stream Magazine
(1873)

Shepardizing
(1875)

The First Significant Series of Illustrations in a Daily Newspaper
(June 30, 1875)

3,500,000 Quotations on Individual Slips of Paper
(1882 – 1884)

The O E D Finally Begins Publication
(February 1, 1884)

The First Application of the Linotype
(July 3, 1886)

The Berne Convention
(September 9, 1886)

Imaginary Historical Biographies
(1887 – 1889)

The First Book Typeset by Linotype
(1887)

The Earliest Miniature Printed Editions of the Qur'an
(1892 – 1900)

Northcliff Founds the Daily Mail; Circulation Soon Reaches 1,000,000
(1896)

The Cumulative Book Index
(February 1898)

The Last Great Original Work in Science to be Published First as a Monograph Rather than in a Scientific Journal
(November 4, 1899)

The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
(1901)

The Photomicrographic Book
(1907)

Curtis's The North American Indian
(1907 – 1930)

8468 New Books are Published in the U.K.
(1910)

Principia Mathematica
(1910 – 1913)

Auditing Circulation
(1914)

The Proclamation of the Irish Republic
(April 23, 1916)

A Massive Central Library on Microform for Printing on Demand
(1925)

Blue-Print for The Third Reich
(1925 – 1927)

The First Television Journal
(March 1928)

Visionary of New Reading Machines and Changes in the Process of Reading
(1930 – 1931)

The First "Talking-Books"
(1931)

Bradford's Law
(January 26, 1934)

Penguin Books
(1935)

The Fitzwilliam Museum Exhibition of Printing: Precursor to "Printing and the Mind of Man"
(May 6 – May 16, 1940)

The First Computing Journal
(1943)

The "Survivor's Talmud" Published by the U.S. Army
(1948)

The First Treatise on Software for an Operational Stored-Program Computer
(1950)

11,638 New Books Are Published in the U.K.
(1950)

After 1954 More News Was Distributed Electronically than on Paper
(1950)

The First Journal on Electronic Computing
(October 1952)

"Fahrenheit 451"
(1953 – 2011)

The First Journal on Computing Changes its Name
(1960)

Computers Drive Linotype Hot Metal Typesetters
(1962)

The Information Economy
(1962)

The First General Typesetting Computers
(1963)

The Printing and the Mind of Man Exhibition
(July 16 – July 27, 1963)

The First Computerized Encyclopedia
(1964)

Science Citation Index
(1964)

"The Medium is the Message"
(1964)

720 Million Copies Printed and Distributed in Under Four Years
(May 1964)

The First Magazine Cover Designed Using Computer Graphics
(July 1965)

Probably the Largest Printed Bibliography, Complete in 754 Folio Volumes
(1968 – 1981)

32,393 New Books Are Published in the U.K.
(1969)

The First Dictionary Based on Corpus Linguistics
(1969)

Books on Tape
(1970)

First Electronic Pagination System, Forerunner of Email and Instant Messaging
(1973)

Manifesto of the Microcomputer Revolution
(1974)

Publication of the Index Thomisticus: Forty Years of Data Processing
(1974 – 1980)

Byte Magazine
(1975)

The First American Bookseller to Discount Books
(1975)

The First Journal on Software for Personal Computers
(January 1976)

TEX and Metafont
(1977 – 1979)

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
(1979)

Nexis is Introduced
(1980)

The First Magazine on Computer Games
(1981)

Foundation of Adobe Systems
(December 1982)

Keyboarding over 350,000,000 Characters
(1983)

The Declining Role of Print in Total Information Flow
(1983)

The First Desktop Publishing Program
(1984)

The Digital Domesday Project--Doomed to Early Digital Obsolescence
(1984 – 1986)

Scalable PostScript Type Fonts
(1984)

2600: The Hacker Quarterly
(1984)

Perhaps the first Underground "Ezine"
(June 1984)

The First Laserprinter for a Microcomputer
(January 1985)

The First Widely-Used Desktop Publishing Program
(July 1985 – 1986)

The First Hand-Held Electronic Book, or e-Book
(1986)

Cyberpunk
(1986)

The First Hypertext Fiction: "Afternoon, a story"
(1987 – 1990)

Boing-Boing
(1988)

The American Memory Project
(1990)

The PDF
(1991)

TrueType Fonts
(1991)

Pioneering Collaboration of Electronic Librarianship, Journalism and Telecommunications
(1992)

The Web's First and Longest Continuously Running Blog
(1993)

Wired 1.01
(March 1993)

The First Commercial Website with the First Online Advertising
(May 1993)

Daily Audited Circulation Greater Than Ten Million Printed Copies
(1994)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Begins Publishing on its Website
(January 1995)

Free Online Classified Advertisements
(March 1995)

The First Wiki
(March 25, 1995)

Network-Based Scholarly Publishing
(June 1995)

D-Lib Magazine
(July 1995)

968,735 New Different Printed Books Are Produced This Year
(1996)

The World's Smallest Book, in 1996
(1996)

Cyberpsychology
(January 1996)

www.nytimes.com
(January 19, 1996)

The First Full-Time Online Webcam Girl
(April 1996 – 2003)

The Last Printed Edition of Beilstein is Published
(1998)

700,000 New Book Titles Are Published in 1998
(1998)

64,711 New Books on Paper are Published in the U.S.
(1999)

Early English Books Online
(1999)

Foundation of Designboom
(1999)

3,200,000 Books Are In Print in the U.S.
(2000)

Predecessor of the Wikipedia
(March 9, 2000 – September 2003)

OED Online
(March 14, 2000)

eBook Distributor is Acquired by Barnes & Noble
(June 5, 2000 – March 2009)

The Wikipedia Begins
(January 15, 2001)

The Future of eBooks
(May 3, 2001)

Rhapsody is Launched
(December 2001)

Working Around Chinese Censorship of Literary Works
(2002)

The First Cell Phone Novel
(2003)

859,000 New Book Titles Published Worldwide in 2003
(2003)

Regulations.gov is Launched
(January 2003)

Grand Text Auto
(May 2003 – May 2009)

The World's Largest Book --Spectacularly Beautiful
(December 2003)

1,200,000 Unique Book Titles are Sold
(2004)

The Institute for the Future of the Book
(2004)

Image Manipulation in Scientific Publications
(July 6, 2004)

BitTorrent is Commercialized
(September 22, 2004)

8,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(November 2004)

"Last Child in the Woods" : Exploration of Nature Versus Exposure to Media in Childhood
(2005)

Wikimania!
(August 4 – August 8, 2005)

Moratorium on Scanning Books
(August 11, 2005)

Google Print Morphs in Two
(October 2005)

300,000,000 Printed Copies
(October 5, 2005)

Massively Distributed Collaboration
(November 9, 2005)

Google Books
(December 2005)

Nearly as Accurate as Brittanica
(December 14, 2005)

Springer Published 50,000 eBooks
(2006 – January 19, 2012)

File-Sharing Exceeds Sales of Digital Music Downloads
(January 22, 2006)

College-Level Lectures Via Podcasts
(January 28, 2006)

Over One Billion iTunes Downloads
(February 22, 2006)

The Espresso "On Demand" Book Machine
(April 2006)

The Biggest Music Retailer in the World: Apple's iTune Store
(April 23, 2006)

Reborn Digital: The First Fully Digital University Press: A 3 Year Experiment in the United States
(July 13, 2006 – September 30, 2010)

The Sony Reader PRS-500
(Circa September – October 2006)

Nature Announces Peer to Peer Review
(September 14, 2006)

Publishing Patent Filings on the Web
(September 26, 2006)

Newspaper Advertising in Partnership with Yahoo
(November 20, 2006)

3.1 Billion Books
(Circa December 2006)

"An Uncensorable System for Mass Document Leaking"
(December 2006)

YouWitnessNews
(December 5, 2006)

The Importance of Social Networking on the Internet
(December 16, 2006)

Wikileaks Manifesto
(December 31, 2006)

A Printed Book on Preserving Digital Information
(2007)

More than 4.7 Billion Bibles Were Been Printed Between 1455 and 2007
(2007)

No More than 10,000,000 Unique Editions before 1900
(2007)

Sales of Books in America in 2007
(2007)

976,000 New Book Titles Published in 2007
(2007)

The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper Moves to the Web
(January 1, 2007)

In 2007 There Were 12,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(February 2007)

28,578,000 Copies Printed Semi-Monthly
(November 2007)

Codex in Crisis
(November 5, 2007)

The Amazon Kindle
(November 19, 2007)

Kindle Direct Publishing Introduced
(November 19, 2007)

Five Billion Songs
(June 2008)

Encyclopedia Brittanica Will Include Wiki-Style Collaboration
(June 2008)

The Leading Classified Advertising Service
(September 2008)

Viewing the Illustrations of a Journal Article in Three Dimensions
(September 30, 2008)

The Largest Atlas Ever Published as a Printed Book
(October 2008 – March 2012)

Creation of the HathiTrust Digital Library
(October 2008 – March 2012)

An Encyclopedia with More than Ten Million Articles
(October 27, 2008)

The First National Newspaper to Shift From a Daily Print Format to an Online Publication
(October 28, 2008)

Authors, Publishers and Google Reach "Landmark Settlement"
(October 28, 2008)

An Election Reported Interactively in Real Time
(November 4, 2008)

PC Magazine Becomes an Online-Only Publication
(November 19, 2008)

Downloads Trump CDs
(November 25, 2008)

Over 5,000,000 Articles Posted on the HighWire Press e-Publishing Platform.
(December 2, 2008)

Probably the Most Expensive Single Volume Printed Edition Ever Published
(December 2, 2008)

"Readability" is Launched
(2009)

Rare Books Magazine Moves from Print to the Web
(January 1, 2009)

Apple Eliminates Anticopying Restrictions from iTunes
(January 6, 2009)

BitTorrent was Responsible for 27-55% of All Internet Traffic
(February 2009)

"Google and the Future of Books"
(February 12, 2009)

Increasing Sales of Digital Books (eBooks)
(May 5, 2009)

Larger Version of the Amazon Kindle Introduced
(May 6, 2009)

Changing the Advertising Model for General News Reporting
(May 21, 2009)

Google Will Sell eBooks
(May 31, 2009)

Size of the Online Book Market in the U.S.
(June 1, 2009)

Amazon Sends Orwell eBooks Down the "Memory Hole"
(July 16, 2009)

USA Today Adds eBook Sales to its Bestsellers List
(July 22, 2009)

The Overlap of Innovation and Tradition in the 15th Century Media Revolution
(August 2009)

Darnton's Case for Books: Past, Present and Future
(September 14, 2009)

The First Historical Thesaurus
(October 2009)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism
(October 3, 2009)

eBook Sales Represent 1.6% of Book Sales
(October 7, 2009)

" A Library to Last Forever" ??
(October 9, 2009)

Google Living Stories Project
(December 8, 2009)

The Amazon Kindle is Hacked; eBook Digital Rights Management Cracked
(December 23, 2009)

eBooks Begin to Outsell Physical Books; 1.49 Million Kindles Sold?
(December 27, 2009)

Biological Journals to Require Data-Archiving
(January 2010)

"Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication. . . "
(February 2010)

Modifiable eBook Editions of Textbooks
(February 22, 2010)

The Sociology of Wikipedians
(March 2010)

Probably the First Fully Visually Satisfying Interactive eBook
(April 5, 2010)

U.S. Book Sales in 2009: $23.9 Billion
(April 7, 2010)

The First Pulitizer Prizes for Internet Journalism
(April 12, 2010)

General Statistics on the U.S. Book Publishing Industry
(May 6, 2010)

Social Networking Added to Reading Electronic Books
(June 12, 2010)

Flipboard, "Your Personalized, Social Magazine"
(July 2010)

For the First Time E-books Outsell Digital Books on Amazon.com
(July 19, 2010)

The First Traditional Humanities Journal to Try "Open" Peer Review
(July 26, 2010)

Wikileaks Installs an "Insurance File"
(July 29, 2010)

There are "129,864,880" Different Books in the World
(August 5, 2010)

eBook Edition Released Prior to Hardcover Edition
(September 8, 2010)

Google Books Scanned More than 15 Million Books in 6 Years
(October 14, 2010)

Towards a New Digital Legal Information Environment
(November 9, 2010)

The Google eBookstore Opens
(December 6, 2010)

Bestsellers on eBook Readers: Romance Novels
(December 9, 2010)

U.S. E-Book Sales Predicted to Reach $1,000,000,000 in 2010
(December 11, 2010)

The Digital Public Library of America
(December 13, 2010)

An Interactive Pop-Up Children's Book App for the iPhone & iPad
(December 16, 2010)

eBooks Represent 9-10% of Trade-Book Sales
(December 23, 2010)

Founder of Wikileaks to Publish his Autobiography
(December 27, 2010)

Post-Review Process Rather than Pre-Review Process in Publishing?
(2011)

The First Independently Published Magazine Exclusively for the iPad
(January 2011)

The Wikipedia Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary
(January 15, 2011)

Publishing Non-Fiction Exclusively for Cell Phones, eBook Readers and Tablet Computers
(January 28, 2011)

The New York Times Begins Ranking eBook Best Sellers
(February 11, 2011)

The Second Best-Selling Book in America Priced Like an App (99 Cents)
(February 25, 2011)

The Environmental Impacts of eBooks and eBook Readers
(March 2011)

In its First Year Apple's iBookstore Sold 100,000,000 Books
(March 2, 2011)

A Program for Signing and Inscribing Ebooks
(April 2011)

Amazon to Launch Library Lending for eBooks on the Kindle Platform
(April 20, 2011)

The Saint John's Bible is Completed
(May 2011)

The First Major Print Magazine Publisher to Offer iPad Subscriptions
(May 9, 2011)

"Print isn't dead, says Bowker's Annual Book Production Report
(May 18, 2011)

Ebooks Outsell Physical Books on Amazon.com
(May 19, 2011)

College Textbooks Make a Slower Transition from Print to Digital
(June 6, 2011)

South Korea to Shift All Primary and High School Textbooks to Digital by 2015
(July 2011)

Leading British Tabloid Closed Because of Cell Phone Hacking Scandal
(July 7 – July 17, 2011)

Consumer Reports Began Generating More Revenue from Digital Subscriptions than from Print
(August 2011)

Non-Traditional Book Publishing on the Internet is 8X the Output of Traditional Book Publishing
(August 1, 2011)

Interactive Reading and Spelling on the iPad
(August 18, 2011)

Michael Hart, Father of eBooks & Founder of Project Gutenberg, Dies
(September 6, 2011)

Amazon Introduces the Kindle Fire
(September 28 – November 14, 2011)

Steve Jobs Dies
(October 5, 2011)

What Would an Infinite Digital Bookcase Look Like?
(October 18, 2011)

Digital Books Represent 25% of Sales of Some Categories of Books but Less than 5% of Childrens' Books
(November 20, 2011)

Rapid Growth of the Digital Textbook Market in the U.S.
(November 23, 2011)

Signalling the Shift from Print to Digital and to More Accurate Metrics of the Effectiveness of Advertising
(November 30, 2011)

Amazon.com Sold More Than 4 Million Kindles in December 2011
(December 2011)

Statistics on European and U.S. eBook Sales
(December 1, 2011)

42,182,000 Copies Printed Semi-Monthly in 194 Languages
(January 2012)

Sales of eBook Readers in 2011
(January 5, 2012)

Apple Introduces iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U
(January 19, 2012)

Creative Destruction of the Book Trade by Amazon?
(February 8, 2012)

The Encyclopedia Britannica Ends Print Publication
(March 14, 2012)

U.S. Justice Department Sues Major Publishers Over the Pricing of eBooks; Amazon Wins
(April 12, 2012)

Pulitzer Prize in Journalism Awarded to an Internet-Only Publication
(April 16, 2012)

"Companies that have existed for centuries could be gone in a generation unless they make a single radical change."
(April 18, 2012)

Microsoft Invests in Barnes & Noble's Nook eBook Reader Division
(April 30, 2012)

The First Annual Report Issued by a Museum in an eBook Format
(May 7, 2012)

How eBooks Are Changing Fiction Writing and Publishing
(May 12, 2012)

Growing Adoption of the eBook Format in the U. S.
(May 29, 2012)

Penguin to Merge with Random House
(October 29, 2012)

eBooks Accounted for 22% of All Book Spending in Second Quarter of 2012
(November 5, 2012)

Penguin Books Introduces a New eBook Lending Program
(November 19, 2012)

The CEO of Barnes & Noble No Longer Reads Physical Books
(November 20, 2012)

eBook Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines
(December 17, 2012)

Online Reviews Used as Attack Weapons to Kill Sales of a Book
(January 20, 2013)

Selling Off Print Media to Allow Fast-Growing Film & Television Assets to Grow Unencumbered by Legacy Print Businesses
(February 14, 2013)

Time Warner Spins off its Print Media Division, Time Inc.
(March 13, 2013)

eBooks Represented 22.55% of U.S. New Book Sales in 2012
(March 28, 2013)