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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
  • Illuminated Manuscript: Charles VI of France
    1400

    Illuminated Manuscript: Charles VI of France

  • Johannes Gutenberg: Invented Gutenberg Press
    1450

    Johannes Gutenberg: Invented Gutenberg Press

    Represents the beginning of modern publishing
  • Gutenberg Bible
    1456

    Gutenberg Bible

    First mass-produced book in Europe
  • Canterbury Tales Published
    1476

    Canterbury Tales Published

    An early example of publishing
  • 1500

    Development of Arabic Font

  • 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

  • C. Bertelsmann Verlag Founded by Carl Bertelsmann

  • Higginbotham's Opens in India

    Higginbotham's Opens in India

  • First WH Smith Shop Opens in Euston station London

    First WH Smith Shop Opens in Euston station London

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville Published

    Moby Dick by Herman Melville Published

  • The Bookseller First Published

    The Bookseller First Published

    Link text

  • First Barnes and Noble Opens in Wheaton, Illinois

  • Angus and Robertson Opens

  • Gibert Jeune Bookstore opens

  • Foyles Opens

  • Barnes and Nobles Opens a Retail Store in New York

  • C. Bertelsmann begins publishing Fiction

  • Audio Books First Produced

  • Nazi's Book Burning

    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

  • British Talking Books Service Launch

    with Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • Penguin Paperbacks first appearance

    Penguin Paperbacks first appearance

  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Published

  • C. Bertelsmann becomes top publisher (book production and unit sales)

  • EBSCO Established

  • Random House in Canada

  • C. Bertelsmann First shut down

  • C. Bertelsmann Re-Established

  • Pocket Books, Dell, Avon and Harlequin begin

    Pocket Books, Dell, Avon and Harlequin begin

  • Guinness World Records First Published

  • Audio Books Produced for Larger, Commercial Market

  • C. Bertelsmann begins development on international publishing

  • Franklin Electronic Publishers Launches first Hand-held reader

  • Random House in UK

  • Copyright, Designs and Patents Act

  • UK Net Book Agreement Ends

  • Amazon Founded

  • Random House acquires Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head and Johnathan Cape, and Century Hutchinson

  • Random House acquires the trad division of Reed Books

  • SoftBook

    SoftBook

  • Bertelsmann Purchases Random House

    Imprints included Doubleday, Bantam Books, Knopf, Vintage, Ballantine, and Transworld
  • Rocket e-Book

    Rocket e-Book

  • Microsoft Reader

    Later Phased out 2012
  • Period: to

    Traditional Publishing Output in UK: 63,807 - 151,969

  • US Launch of Kindle

  • US Sales of Audio Books est $190 Mil

    Audio Publishers Association

  • Internationally, over 20 publishers have a billion US dollar turnover

  • "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

  • "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