November 19, 2007
A reading device launched at $399 and sold out within days
Archived Amazon pages and its 2007 annual report state Kindle's launch-day price, wireless delivery, and how quickly it sold out.
The ledger archive
20 entries shown, each prepared after the events it records and published with its sources attached.
Give the first reader somewhere to go
A small launch plan that connects a reader’s first encounter with a truthful next step, rather than treating attention as an outcome by itself.
Choose the publishing route for the edition
How to compare direct, retail, wholesale, and partner-led publication without collapsing reach, rights, margin, and responsibility into one claim.
A reference shelf for text, edition and object.
Three kinds of record help a literary note stay precise: a readable text, an edition history and a physical object record. Use each for the question it can answer.
January 1, 1926
A 1926 book club's own centennial page meets its rejection file
The club's own centennial account of 1926 and a Library of Congress archive of its readers' reports show two different views of the same selection process.
September 29, 1965
A 1965 statute later grew into direct grants for individual writers
The NEA's own timeline dates its founding act to September 1965 and describes the literature fellowships that followed.
July 1, 2013
Two publishers' own statements agree on one bounded merger
Bertelsmann and Pearson's matching 2013 releases document ownership, leadership, and regulatory approvals.
March 24, 2023
A federal court found library ebook scanning was not fair use
The Hachette v. Internet Archive opinion records why one-to-one scanning and lending failed fair use, and what the later appeal addressed.
The Brontës made toy-soldier-sized books too small for adults
The museum's own pages describe why the children's tiny handwriting was practical, not just precious.
October 1, 2010
A digital edition reunited Austen's manuscripts, minus her six novels
The project's own pages name the surviving manuscripts and the one exception among her published novels' drafts.
February 25, 2021
A pandemic-year revenue total hid two opposite stories
AAP's own StatShot report names its categories and participant count behind the 2020 figure.
January 1, 1971
A librarians' exhibition in 1971 grew into a rights fair
Reed Exhibitions' own archived history page dates the fair to a 1971 hotel exhibition and a 1977 renaming.
January 1, 1977
Woolf's diaries reached full print only decades after her death
NYPL's own exhibition record and library catalog entries trace the manuscripts and the five-volume edition made from them.
June 20, 1949
A trust delayed Mark Twain's papers reaching a public archive
The Mark Twain Project's own history traces a 1949 codicil, two editors' terms, and the collection's arrival at Berkeley.
November 19, 2007
A self-publishing tool launched alongside the Kindle itself
Amazon's 2007 announcement and today's KDP terms page show what changed in Kindle self-publishing.
January 1, 1953
A new quarterly's first issue interviewed a novelist about method
The Paris Review's founding issue paired a fiction-first mission with an interview built to ask a novelist how he works.
January 1, 1920
A professor's private manual found a second author decades later
Copyright pages and a library catalog record trace how Strunk's 1918 manual became the 1959 Strunk and White.
April 2, 2013
A national library aggregated collections without owning them
DPLA's founding record shows a hub network built to aggregate metadata, not to hold the collections it makes searchable.
April 11, 2024
A membership survey counted authors' income lost to AI tools
The Society of Authors' 2024 survey of nearly 800 respondents recorded reported use of, and losses to, generative AI.
January 1, 1943
A wartime council printed over 122 million paperbacks for troops
A Library of Congress research guide dates the 1943-1947 program, its 1,324 titles, and states the format it extended rather than invented.