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Period: 1 CE to 4
‘Bookshops,’ in whatever form, were generally ancillary to private channels for the production and reproduction of literary texts
Alan Mugridge. Copying Early Christian Texts : A Study of Scribal Practice. Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, 2016. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=2343992&site=eds-live&scope=site. -
4
Chrysostom exhorted his hearers to buy at least parts of the NT to read at home
Alan Mugridge. Copying Early Christian Texts : A Study of Scribal Practice. Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, 2016. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=2343992&site=eds-live&scope=site. -
Period: 260 to 270
In Oxyrhynchus, more than two-thirds of the adult males were illiterate in Greek
Alan Mugridge. Copying Early Christian Texts : A Study of Scribal Practice. Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, 2016. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=2343992&site=eds-live&scope=site. -
Period: 1100 to
Illuminated Manuscript
Considered to be the first books -
1400
Illuminated Manuscript: Charles VI of France
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1450
Johannes Gutenberg: Invented Gutenberg Press
Represents the beginning of modern publishing -
1456
Gutenberg Bible
First mass-produced book in Europe -
1476
Canterbury Tales Published
An early example of publishing -
1500
Development of Arabic Font
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Period: 1559 to
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Books banned by the Catholic Church. Abolished by Pope VI -
Typesetting in the Arabic font begins to be fully developed using Movable Type
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C. Bertelsmann Verlag Founded by Carl Bertelsmann
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Higginbotham's Opens in India
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First WH Smith Shop Opens in Euston station London
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville Published
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First Barnes and Noble Opens in Wheaton, Illinois
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Angus and Robertson Opens
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Gibert Jeune Bookstore opens
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Foyles Opens
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Barnes and Nobles Opens a Retail Store in New York
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C. Bertelsmann begins publishing Fiction
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Audio Books First Produced
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Nazi's Book Burning
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side." Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Allen Lane: Founded Penguin Books
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British Talking Books Service Launch
with Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -
Penguin Paperbacks first appearance
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Published
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C. Bertelsmann becomes top publisher (book production and unit sales)
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EBSCO Established
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Random House in Canada
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C. Bertelsmann First shut down
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C. Bertelsmann Re-Established
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Pocket Books, Dell, Avon and Harlequin begin
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Guinness World Records First Published
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Audio Books Produced for Larger, Commercial Market
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C. Bertelsmann begins development on international publishing
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Franklin Electronic Publishers Launches first Hand-held reader
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Random House in UK
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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
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UK Net Book Agreement Ends
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Amazon Founded
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Random House acquires Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head and Johnathan Cape, and Century Hutchinson
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Random House acquires the trad division of Reed Books
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SoftBook
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Bertelsmann Purchases Random House
Imprints included Doubleday, Bantam Books, Knopf, Vintage, Ballantine, and Transworld -
Rocket e-Book
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Microsoft Reader
Later Phased out 2012 -
Period: to
Traditional Publishing Output in UK: 63,807 - 151,969
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US Launch of Kindle
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US Sales of Audio Books est $190 Mil
Audio Publishers Association -
Internationally, over 20 publishers have a billion US dollar turnover
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"What is missing...is the demand for and insistence on quality editing"
Woll, T. Publishing for Profit -
"This transformation has been shrouded in something like the fog of war...from the global IT revolution whose outcome...[cannot be] predict[ed], and whose influence touched every aspect of the printed word"
Robert McCrum, the Guardian -
Random House changes to 'agency model' in pricing e-books
Last major publishing house to do so -
"Publishers have been very focused on how to replicate the book in digital form...But is that the right format?"
Jonathan Williams BoxFiction -
"We strove to replicat the look and feel of the magazine...[however] we decided we would use these iPad extras sparingly...Word is still king"
Pamela Maffei McCarthy, deputy director of The New Yorker -
Borders closes
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"The modes of classification that were stabilized by printing-house convention paved the way for the encyclopedic mentality of the Enlightenment."
Jonathan Bate, "The first great age of the book" -
C. Bertelsmann closes last two retail stores
