A History of Publishing
3500 BC Sumerian Clay Tablets Sumerians use cuneiform alphabet, pressed in clay with a triangular stylus. Clay tablets were dried and/or fired for longevity. Some even had clay envelopes, which were also inscribed. Some consider them to be the earliest form of the book. 2400 BC Papyrus Date of the earliest surviving papyrus scroll with writing. 1041 Movable Type The earliest known movable type machine is created in China. 1456 Gutenberg Gutenberg printed his 42-line Bible in Mainz on the first printing press. He also used a quality of handmade paper which remains unsurpassed to this day. 1457 Color Printing Color printing first appears. 1626 Facsimile The first facsimile edition by Plantin, 16th century Martyrologium Hieronymianum (engraved on copper plates). 1800 Library of Congress Library of Congress founded in Washington D.C. 1841 Tauchnitz First paperbacks by Tauchnitz Verlag Germany. 1874 Remington Christopher Sholes invents the typewriter, which is marketed by Remington. 1935 Book Burning Nazis initiate a campaign of book burning. 1945 Vannavar Bush Futurist Vannavar Bush dreams of a "Memex," which allows an individual to store all his books, records, and communications, and is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged supplement to his memory. His vision will result in developments leading to the World Wide Web. 1968 Hypertext Ted Nelson coins the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" for non-sequential writings and branching presentations of all types. 1968 DynaBook Postgraduate student Alan Kay develops the idea for DynaBook, a portable, interactive personal computer, as accessible as a book. Julian Arhire is a success coach, trainer, Certified Master of Web Copywriting and founder of http://EbooksChoice.com/. Julian is a prolific writer and Infopreneur having written many ebooks, articles and special reports.
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