From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Book History Outline

The Abu Salbikh Tablet Lost in the Iraq War
(Circa 2,500 BCE)

The Earliest Known Dictionaries
(Circa 2,300 BCE)

The Oldest Known Tablet Containing a Legal Code
(2,100 BCE – 2,050 BCE)

The Earliest Known Document Written on Papyrus
(Circa 2,000 BCE)

The Oldest Surviving Illustrated Papyrus Roll
(Circa 1,980 BCE)

The Oldest Known Medical Papyrus
(Circa 1,800 BCE)

The Earliest Surviving Recipes
(Circa 1,700 BCE)

“Accurate Reckoning for Inquiring into Things, and the Knowledge of All Things, Mysteries . . .All Secrets”
(Circa 1,650 BCE)

The Largest Surviving Medical Treatise from Ancient Mesopotamia
(Circa 1,600 BCE)

The Most Extensive Record of Ancient Egyptian Medicine
(Circa 1,550 BCE)

Wooden Writing Board Containing Text of the Words of Khakheperresoneb
(Circa 1,500 BCE)

Oracle Bone Script
(Circa 1,200 BCE – 1,050 BCE)

The Longest Known Egyptian Papyrus
(Circa 1,186 BCE – 1,155 BCE)

Perhaps the Oldest European Alphabet
(Circa 800 BCE)

Standardization of the Homeric Texts Begins
(Circa 750 BCE)

Knowledge as Power: The Earliest Systematically Collected Library as Distinct from an Archive
(668 BCE – 627 BCE)

Export of Books from Greece to the Euxine Coast
(399 BCE)

The Royal Library of Alexandria: The Largest Collection of Recorded Information in the Ancient World
(Circa 300 BCE)

The Dead Sea Scrolls
(300 BCE – 68 CE)

The Beginnings of Latin Literature
(Circa 300 BCE)

The Guodian Chu Slips: "Like the Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls"
(Circa 300 BCE)

The Beginnings of Philology
(Circa 280 BCE)

A "Wild" or "Eccentric" Papyrus of the Iliad
(Circa 275 BCE)

Writing on Bamboo and Silk
(Circa 250 BCE)

The Septuagint
(Circa 250 BCE)

The Very Long Process of Canonization of the Hebrew Bible
(Circa 200 BCE – 200 CE)

The Library of Pergamum
(197 BCE – 159 BCE)

The Mawangui Silk Texts
(Circa 175 BCE)

The Oldest Hebrew Manuscript Fragment before the Dead Sea Scrolls
(Circa 150 BCE – 100 BCE)

The Earliest Bookbindings
(Circa 100 BCE)

The Book Trade in Cicero's Rome
(Circa 70 BCE)

Possibly the Earliest System of Shorthand
(63 BCE)

The New Testament Was Probably Written over Less than a Century
(Circa 65 CE – 150 CE)

Composition of the Four Gospels
(70 CE – 110 CE)

The First Mention of Literary Works Published in Parchment Codices
(84 CE – 86 CE)

The Sole Surviving Example of Roman Literary Cursive script and the Earliest Example of a Parchment Codex
(Circa 100 CE)

The Form of the Manuscript Book Gradually Shifts from the Roll to the Codex
(Circa 150 CE – 450 CE)

The Transition from the Roll to the Codex Resulted in Both Survival and Destruction of Information
(Circa 200 CE – 400 CE)

One of the Few Scraps of Classical Literary Illustration on Papyrus
(Circa 250 CE)

The Crosby-Schoyen Codex: One of the Earliest Extant Manuscripts in Codex Form
(Circa 250 CE)

Costs of Professional Writing Measured by the Normal Length of a Line in a Verse of Virgil
(Circa 284 CE – 305 CE)

The Codex Sinaiticus
(300 CE – 400 CE)

Confirmation of the Adoption of the Codex Form of the Book by the Early Christians
(300 CE – 350 CE)

The Transition from Papyrus to Parchment
(Circa 300 CE)

Contantine Orders Fifty Luxurious Bibles for the Churches of Constantinople
(326 CE – 327 CE)

The Earliest Dated Codex with Full-Page Illustrations
(354 CE)

The Earliest Document of the Christian Book Trade
(Circa 355 CE)

St. Jerome Criticizes Luxurious Manuscripts
(384 CE)

The Charioteer Papyrus
(Circa 400 CE)

Jerome Criticizes Conspicuous Luxury in Christian Books
(Circa 400 CE)

"The Earliest Evidence for Tooling on a Leather Bookbinding"
(Circa 400 CE)

At the Beginning of the Dark Ages Production of New Manuscripts Essentially Ceased
(Circa 400 CE – 600)

The Oldest Surviving Consular Diptych -- an Object that Could be Used as a Writing Tablet
(406 CE)

The Only Illustrated Homer from Antiquity
(493 CE – 508)

The Format of the Book Evolved with the Transition to the Codex
(Circa 500 CE)

Possibly the Earliest Surviving Illuminated Christian Manuscripts
(Circa 500 CE – 650)

Probably the Most Beautiful of the Earliest Surviving Scientific Codices
(Circa 512)

The Codex Argenteus, Written in Silver and Gold Letters on Purple Vellum
(Circa 520)

St. Benedict Introduces Monastic Life to Europe
(529)

The First Surviving Metal Bookcovers
(Circa 550)

The Earliest Manuscript of the New Testament in Christian Palestinian Aramaic
(Circa 550)

One of the Oldest Surviving Illuminated Manuscripts of the New Testament
(Circa 555)

The Scriptorium and Library at the Vivarium
(Circa 560)

A Volume Brought by St. Augustine to England in 597
(597)

The Earliest Western Metalwork Bookcovers
(Circa 600)

The Qur'an
(Circa 610 – 613)

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

Possibly the Earliest Surviving Irish Codex
(Circa 625)

The Illuminated Gospel Book as a Tool for Evangelization
(627)

Arab Conquest of Egypt Resulted in Smaller Exports of Papyrus-- A Probable Cause of the Eventual Adoption of Greek Minuscule in Byzantine Book Production
(641)

One of the Smallest Surviving Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and the Earliest Surviving Western Binding in Europe
(Circa 650)

Foundation of Corbie Abbey
(659 – 661)

The Earliest Surviving Complete Bible in the Latin Vulgate, and One of the Earliest Surviving Images of Bookbindings and a Bookcase
(Circa 685)

The Foundation of English History
(Circa 731)

The Stockholm Codex Aureus, Looted Twice by Vikings
(Circa 750)

About 7000 Manuscripts and Fragments Survive from the Late 8th and 9th Centuries
(Circa 780 – 875)

The Gellone Sacramentary: a Masterpiece of Carolingian Manuscript Illumination
(Circa 790)

The First Treasure Binding Associated with its Original Codex
(790 – 795)

The Book of Kells
(Circa 800)

The Book of Durrow
(Circa 800)

Charlemagne Renews Book and Library Culture
(800 – 877)

An Unusual, Energetic Style of Illustration
(Circa 816 – 841)

"A Perfect Relationship between Text and Picture"
(Circa 820 – 830)

The Earliest Surviving Dated Complete Printed Book
(May 11, 868)

The Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram
(Circa 870)

The Oldest Dated Manuscript of a Classical Greek Author
(888)

Jews Seem to Have Adopted the Codex Around 900
(Circa 900)

The Earliest Surviving Manuscript of the Complete Hebrew Bible
(Circa 930)

The Earliest Recorded Book Auction
(Circa 950)

Possibly the Most Valuable Book in the World
(Circa 998 – 1001)

The Oldest Surviving Illustrated Manuscript in Arabic
(1009 – 1010)

The Oldest Scottish Book Remaining in Scotland
(Circa 1025)

The Earliest Surviving Book Written in the Americas
(Circa 1050 – 1150)

Twelfth Century Images of the Processes in Book Production
(Circa 1150)

Origins of the Paris Book Trade
(Circa 1170)

The Hunterian Psalter
(Circa 1170)

Beginnings of an Active Book Trade Outside of Monasteries
(Circa 1200)

The Pecia System
(April 4, 1228)

The Largest Extant Medieval Manuscript- The Devil's Bible
(1229)

Le Roman de la Rose: A Medieval Best Seller
(Circa 1230 – 1275)

139 Professional Scribes Are Working in Bologna
(1265 – 1268)

Autograph Manuscript by Ibn-al-Nafis on the Art of Medicine
(Circa 1280)

The Lure and Romance of Travel to the East
(1298 – 1299)

The Use of Manuscript Rolls in the Middle Ages
(Circa 1304 – 1340)

Philobiblon
(1345)

The Oldest Sephardic Haggadah
(Circa 1350)

An Idea of the Costs of Producing Medieval Manuscripts
(1374)

The Earliest Surviving Book Printed from Moveable Type
(1377)

Costs for a Missal Produced in 1382
(1382)

One of the Oldest Known Manuscripts on Cookery in English, Written in the Form of a Scroll
(Circa 1390)

The Guild of Stationers
(1403)

An Encyclopedia in 11,095 Volumes
(1403 – 1408)

Model Book for Manuscript and Printed Book Illumination
(Circa 1450)

The Earliest Surviving Remnant of Any European Book Printed by Moveable Type
(Circa 1452 – 1453)

The Giant Bible of Mainz
(April 4, 1452 – July 9, 1453)

Byzantine Greek Scholars Carry Manuscripts to Italy
(Circa June 1453)

The 42-Line Bible
(1454)

The Earliest Dated European Document Printed by Moveable Type
(October 22, 1454)

Completion of the 42-Line Bible
(1455 – 1456)

"The Sale of a Printed Bible"
(March 12, 1455)

Fust Files a Lawsuit against Gutenberg to Recover Money Used for the "Work of the Books"
(November 6, 1455)

The First Known Medical or Scientific Work to be Printed, Surviving in Only One Copy
(1456)

The Bulla Turcorum of Calixtus III, of Which One Copy Survives
(June 29, 1456)

The Mainz Psalter. . . .without "Any Driving of the Pen"
(August 14, 1457)

A Scribe and Illuminator Adopts the New Technology
(Circa 1458)

The First Book Set in Fere-Humanistica or Gotico-Antiqua Types
(October 6, 1459)

An Intermediate Form between a Collection of Prints and a Blockbook
(Circa 1460 – 1465)

Second Printed Edition of the Bible
(1460)

Gutenberg's Last Production? An Early Form of Stereotyping?.
(1460 – 1469)

Integrating Illustrations into the Printed Text
(Circa 1460 – 1490)

The Third Printed Edition of the Bible
(Circa 1461)

The First Book Printed in German and the First Dated Book with Woodcuts
(February 14, 1461)

The First Combination of Text and Illustrations in One Printing Forme
(1462 – 1463)

The First Explicitly Dated Bible, with the First Printer's Mark
(August 14, 1462)

The First Publication with a Printed Title Page
(1463)

The First Book Printed in Italy, the First Book Printed in Roman Type, & the First Edition of a "Classical" Text
(September 1465)

The Value and Difficulty of Preparing an Accurate Manuscript for Printing
(1466)

The First Printed Encyclopedia
(1467)

Possibly the Earliest Printed Book for which the Printer's Manuscript Remains Extant
(June 12, 1467)

The Earliest Illustrated Printed Book Published in Italy
(December 31, 1467)

Printing Decreased the Costs of Books by 80%
(1468)

The First Printed Editions of Virgil
(1469 – 1470)

The Earliest Books Printed in Hebrew
(1469 – 1472)

The Earliest Surviving Book List Issued by a Printer
(June 1469 – September 1470)

The Beginning of Printing in Venice
(September 1469)

The First Printing Press in France
(1470)

Three Ways that Printing Changed Manuscript Culture
(Circa 1470)

The First Book Printed in Jenson's Roman Type
(1470)

The First Call for Press Censorship
(1471)

The First Printed Book on Technology with the First Woodcuts on a Scientific or Technological Subject
(1472)

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

Scribes Attempt to Block Competition from Printers
(May 12, 1472)

The First Map Included in a Printed Book
(November 19, 1472)

The First Book Printed in English
(1473 – 1474)

First Printed Edition of Philobiblon
(1473)

The Earliest Printed Music
(Circa 1473)

The First Printed Book Issued with Pagination
(Circa 1473 – 1474)

The First Technical Dictionary
(1473 – 1474)

Some of the Earliest Evidence of Collaboration between Author and Printer
(1474)

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

The First Printed Edition of the First Geography Contains No Maps
(September 13, 1475)

The First Illustrated Printed Book on Natural History
(October 30, 1475)

The First "Modern" Title Page
(1476)

The First Book Printed Entirely in Greek Type
(January 30, 1476)

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

William Caxton Opens the First Printing Office in England
(September 29, 1476)

The First Recorded Piece of Printing Done in England
(December 13, 1476)

The First Book with Engraved Maps
(1477)

The First Printed Herbal
(May 9, 1477)

The Earliest Portrait of an Author in a Printed Book
(August 28, 1479)

A Typical Print Run
(1480)

The First Concrete Evidence of the Existence of Matrices for the Casting of Type Fonts
(September 1480)

The First Printed Herbal with Illustrations and Probably the First Series of Illustrations on a Scientific Subject
(Circa 1481 – 1482)

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

The Earliest Medical Work Printed in English
(Circa 1483)

One of the Earliest Acknowledgments of Gutenberg's Invention
(September 13, 1483)

The Sultan Prohibits Turks from Printing
(1484)

The Earliest Work Printed in England to Contain Color Printing
(1486)

The First Printed Work on Classical Architecture
(1486 – August 16, 1490)

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 Beginning of Prepublication Censorship
(November 17, 1487)

The First Printing of a Major Greek Work in its Original Language
(1488 – 1489)

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

The Second Book Printed in Lisbon
(July 16, 1489)

The Most Complete Pattern Book from Medieval Britain
(Circa 1490)

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

The Nuremberg Chronicle
(July 12 – December 1493)

The First Book Printed in the Ottoman Empire
(December 13, 1493)

The Earliest Subject Bibliography
(1494)

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 Persistence of Illuminated Manuscript Production
(Circa 1499)

The Illustration of a Printing Office and Bookshop in a Printed Book
(February 18, 1499)

Early Printing in Hebrew
(1500)

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

The First English Cookbook, Known from a Single Surviving Copy
(1500)

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

Printing Presses are Established in 282 Cities
(December 1500)

The First Book of Music Printed from Moveable Type
(1501)

Censorship from One of the Most Controversial of Renaissance Popes
(1501)

First Book Completely Printed in Italic Type and the First of Aldus's Pocket Editions of the Classics
(April 1501)

The First Book Issued from the First Press in Scotland
(September 15, 1507)

The Aberdeen Breviary, the First Major Book Printed in Scotland
(1509 – 1510)

The First Book in Arabic Printed by Moveable Type
(1514)

The Most Stringent Papal Censorship Before the Reformation
(May 4, 1515)

The First Press on the Continent of Africa
(1516)

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

"The Law of Printing" Issued in Response to Exsurge Domine
(May 26, 1521)

First Printed Edition of the Greek Text of Euclid
(September 1533)

Dissolution of the Monasteries Brings Destruction and Dispersal of Libraries
(1536 – 1541)

The Codex Mendoza
(Circa 1540)

The First Publisher's Catalogue in Book Form
(1542)

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

With Self-Portraits of the Artists
(1542)

The Copernican Revolution Begins
(1543)

Unprecedented Blending of Scientific Exposition, Art and Typography
(June 1543)

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

Erotic Images Made Acceptable by their Adaptation for Medical Purposes
(1545)

Renaissance Surgery and Graphic Arts
(1545)

The First Edition of Vesalius Published in England
(October 1545 – 1553)

Masterpiece of High Renaissance Manuscript Illumination
(1546)

The First National Bibliography
(1548)

Medical Discovery, Heresy, and Martyrdom
(1553)

The Inquistion Publishes its First List of Censored Works
(1554)

Concentrating the Entire Printing Business in the Members of the Stationers Company
(May 4, 1557)

Index Librorum Prohibitorum
(1559)

Who Discovered the Pulmonary Circulation?
(1559)

Destruction of the Maya Codices
(July 12, 1562)

It is Forbidden for any French Printer to Print without Permission, under Penalty of being Hanged or Strangled
(1563)

The First Dated Book Printed in Russia
(March 1, 1564)

The First Book Printed in a Goidelic Language
(April 24, 1567)

The First Medical Book Printed in the Western Hemisphere with the Earliest Illustrations of Plants Printed in the Western Hemisphere
(1570)

One of the Earliest Pop-Up Books
(1570)

The First Book Printed in the Middle East
(1577)

First Complete Slavic Bible
(July 20, 1580 – August 12, 1581)

First Book Printed by Europeans in China
(1583)

The Medici Press
(1584)

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

Renaissance Information Retrieval Device
(1588)

The Earliest Surviving Catalogue of a Book Auction
(July 6, 1599)

The First Bibliography Published in the New World
(1606)

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

The First Book Printed in the Arab World
(1610)

Possibly the Earliest Extant Examples of Wall-Shelving
(1610 – 1612)

Images of Revolutionary Discoveries Concerning the Universe
(March 1610)

Probably the Earliest Records of the Charges for Trade Bindings in England
(1619)

The First Private Newspaper Published in English
(1621)

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

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

The Earliest Documented 15th Century Book in North America
(1635)

Establishment of the First Printing Press in North America: No Copies of the First Two Imprints Exist
(1639)

Coining the Term Incunabula
(1639)

The First Book Printed in North America
(1640)

Abolition of the Star Chamber Stimulates Publishing
(1641)

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

The First Book on Librarianship in English
(1650)

One of the Most Significant Private Libraries Preserved Intact from Seventeenth Century England, in its Original Bookcases
(Circa 1650 – 1703)

The Founding Text of Modern French Cuisine
(1651)

The First Published Illustrated Catalogue of an Art Collection
(1660)

The First Complete Bible Published in the Western Hemisphere
(1661 – 1663)

Argument for Forest Management
(1664)

Graphic Portrayal of the Hitherto Unknown Microcosm
(1665)

The First Scientific Journal
(January 5, 1665)

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

Construction of Samuel Pepys's Bookshelves -- Among the Earliest Extant
(August 17, 1667)

Laws of Book Production and the Book Trade
(1675)

The First Book Auction in England
(October 31, 1676)

First Comprehensive Printing Manual
(1683 – 1684)

The First Book Catalogue Published in America
(1693)

The First Books Printed in Arabic in the Middle East
(1706)

The First Book Auction Conducted in Paris for Which a Catalogue was Printed
(July – December 1706)

Famous Proofreaders and Press Correctors
(1716)

The First French Manual on Printing and the First Book on Book Design
(1723)

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

The First Printing Press in Turkey
(1729)

The First Periodical to Use the Word "Magazine"
(January 1731)

First Use of Color Printing in a Medical or Scientific Book
(1736)

The First "Full-Fledged Antiquarian Bookseller's Catalogue"
(1738)

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

The First Magazine Published in North America
(January 1741)

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

Diderot on Information Overload
(1755)

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

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

The First English History of Paleography and Diplomatics
(1784)

Earliest Precursor to the Dust Jacket?
(1791)

The First American Cookbook Written by an American
(1796)

Phasing Out Latin as the International Language
(1800)

Gradual Disappearance of the Long S in Typography
(Circa 1800 – 1820)

The First Edition of the Qur'an Printed by Muslims
(1801)

The First Book Printed on Recycled Paper
(1801)

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

First Periodic Table of the Elements
(1808 – 1827)

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

Invention of Chromolithography
(1818)

The Natural History of Man
(1819)

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

The Earliest Known Dust Jacket
(1829)

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

Non-Euclidean Geometry Independently Discovered
(1832 – 1833)

The First Book on a Secular Subject Printed in Arabic by a Press in the Arab World
(1836)

The Greatest Private Collector of Manuscripts
(1837 – 1871)

First Book Typeset by a Mechanical Typesetting Machine
(1842)

The Railroad also Becomes an Information Distribution Network
(1848)

Boolean Algebra
(1854)

The First Book of Printed Reproductions of Photographs
(1856)

The First Dust Jackets in the Flap-Style on Books Printed in English
(1857)

The First Book to Include a Photograph of its Author
(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)

First Publisher-Issued Dust Jacket in the United States
(1865)

The Library and Museum Moved to the Site of Lincoln's Assassination
(1867)

The First Telephone Directory
(November 1878)

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

Foundation of The Grolier Club
(January 23, 1884)

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

Linotype Invented
(1886 – 1887)

Prayerbook Woven by the Jacquard Loom
(1886 – 1887)

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

Problems with Leather Used in Bookbinding
(1905)

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

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

6,292 Different Incunabula in North American Libraries
(1919)

Predictor of the Electronic Book
(1930)

Discovery of the "Dead Sea Scrolls"
(1947)

Final Edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
(1948)

The First Popular Book on Electronic Computers
(1949)

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

The Monotype Monomatic Hot Type Machine
(1960)

"Silent Spring"
(1962)

The Gutenberg Galaxy
(1962)

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

"Libraries of the Future"
(1965)

Abolishing the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
(1966)

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

The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
(1968)

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

The First Digital Library
(July 4, 1971)

The First American Bookseller to Discount Books
(1975)

A Printed Book Entitled Toward Paperless Information Systems
(1978)

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
(1979)

The Name of the Rose
(1980)

Keyboarding over 350,000,000 Characters
(1983)

The First Desktop Publishing Program
(1984)

The First Scalable Type Fonts
(1984)

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

Probably the Best Book History and Library Film Set in the Middle Ages
(1986)

Amazon.com is Founded
(July 1995)

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

Electronic Paper by E Ink Corporation
(1997)

Printing about the Handpress Using Photo-Offset
(1998)

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

The Last Integrated Typefoundry, Letterpress Printer & Bindery
(2000)

Prepress Becomes Digital
(2000)

The Future of eBooks
(May 3, 2001)

Origins of Cyberspace
(2002)

The World's Smallest Book
(2002)

The First Cell Phone Novel
(2003)

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

The First Automatic Page-Turning Scanner
(April 7 – April 9, 2003)

"Vegetal and Mineral Memory: The Future of Books"
(November 1, 2003)

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

18th Century Collections Online
(2004)

The Institute for the Future of the Book
(2004)

From Gutenberg to the Internet
(2005)

Code 2.2 wiki
(March 2005)

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

Nearly as Accurate as Brittanica
(December 14, 2005)

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

Reborn Digital: The First Fully Digital University Press in the United States
(July 13, 2006)

Web-Footed?
(September 2006)

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

3.1 Billion Books
(Circa December 2006)

A Printed Book on Preserving Digital Information
(2007)

More than 4.7 Billion Bibles Have Been Printed
(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)

MediaCommons: a digital scholarly network
(January 24, 2007)

Codex in Crisis
(November 5, 2007)

The Amazon Kindle
(November 19, 2007)

A Virtual Course on Teaching in Virtual Worlds
(August 4, 2008)

Supposedly the Largest Atlas Ever Published as a Printed Book
(October 2008)

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

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

Google Will Sell E-Books
(May 31, 2009)

Virtual Reunification of the Codex Sinaiticus
(July 6, 2009)

USA Today Adds E-Book 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)

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

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

Convergence of Media: Packaging Blu-ray Discs in Books
(December 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)

Introduction of Apple's iPad
(January 27, 2010)

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

Untitled
(April 7, 2010)

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

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

Stanford's New Engineering Library Will House Few Physical Books
(July 8, 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)

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