February 17, 2023
A three-month strike ended with a ratification date, not a start date
UAW's own ratification announcement and the local's background page leave the walkout's first day unstated.
The ledger archive
20 entries shown, each prepared after the events it records and published with its sources attached.
November 27, 1895
Nobel's will created a literature prize decided by an ideal direction
The Nobel Foundation's own records trace the will's wording to the first prize's award in December 1901.
May 21, 2014
Authors organised around keeping older work in circulation
Its own 2014 launch record names Founding Members and a mission distinct from tighter-rights author advocacy.
March 24, 2020
A pandemic lending change drew a publisher lawsuit within months
The Internet Archive's own March 2020 notice and publishers' own statements record what changed and how fast.
July 1, 1999
NaNoWriMo began with twenty-one friends writing for fun
The organisation's own history page dates the 1999 start; its website no longer describes an active program.
July 7, 2023
Two lawsuits named a shadow library as an AI training source
Silverman, Kadrey and Golden sued OpenAI and Meta the same day, both complaints citing the Books3 dataset.
January 1, 1996
An all-male shortlist led to a prize restricted to women novelists
The prize's own archived history ties its January 1996 launch to the all-male Booker shortlist of 1991.
January 1, 2008
Research libraries pooled their scans into one shared repository
HathiTrust's own pages state which library partnerships founded it in 2008 and what its shared digital repository preserves.
Translation Handoff Begins With a Brief
A practical translation handoff that preserves scope, terminology, voice decisions, and review responsibility without claiming that a fluent draft is publication-ready.
December 29, 2021
New York's governor vetoed a library ebook bill over preemption
The bill passed both chambers before Governor Hochul's veto cited the same federal copyright argument later used against Maryland.
Before a manuscript enters an AI tool
A per-project method for deciding what a tool generated, what may be shared with it, and what a publisher or retailer needs to know.
January 1, 2019
A twenty-year freeze on the public domain calendar finally ended
Duke Law's public domain center and the Copyright Office's own circular state why 1923 works waited until 2019 to enter the public domain.
January 1, 2001
A register-scan sales count still leaves a gap it does not state
Nielsen's 2002 unification page and Circana's current coverage figure both describe a partial retail count.
April 19, 1922
A writers' club founded fellowship and advocacy together
PEN America's own history page dates its 1922 New York founding within a London-founded international structure.
December 1, 1998
The DMCA made bypassing an ebook lock its own offence
The 1998 law and the Copyright Office's own rulemaking record separate anti-circumvention from infringement itself.
September 18, 2013
A literary prize chose expansion over a second award
The Foundation's 2013 announcement and current rules page both tie eligibility to language, not nationality.
January 1, 2007
A nonprofit set out to build one web page for every book
Open Library's and the Internet Archive's own pages state the catalogue project's founding goal and its scanning-partnership roots.
January 1, 1970
A nonprofit's newsletter for writers grew into an awarded magazine
Poets & Writers' own pages date its founding to 1970 and trace its newsletter's growth into today's magazine.
January 1, 1974
A Berkeley program bet that writing teachers learn best from peers
NWP's history page and a Bancroft Library finding aid both date the Bay Area Writing Project's founding to 1974.
May 13, 2009
A retailer's first imprint drew on its own review data first
Amazon's 2009 and 2010 press releases document AmazonEncore's shift from rediscovery to a Kindle acquisition channel.