North American Publishing history

The Bologna Children's Book Fair, which has been held in Italy since 1963, is uniquely devoted to children's publishing.

In 1980, Random House was acquired by Advanced Communications and became part of the New house family's media empire.

The Guadalajara International Book Fair was founded in 1987.

In 1989, the American Association of Publishers published The Starvation of Young Black Minds: The Effects of Book Boycotts in South Africa in an attempt to have books excluded from the economic embargo against South Africa under apartheid.

Since 1990, the Havana International Book Fair has highlighted the literary achievements and strengths of Cuba.

Hilts, Paul. "The American Revolution in Book Production." Publishers Weekly, September 14, 1992.

They nearly doubled again to reach $17.2 billion in 1993.

Marmaduke, John. "Why Publishers are Losing Market Share." Publishers Weekly, November 10, 1997.

Adolf Hilter's Mein Kampf cannot be sold in Germany, but it can be (and is) published and sold in the United States. As a result, in 1999, Amazon.com stopped selling Mein Kampf to German customers.

Such nineteenth-century New York publishers as Harper, Putnam, and Scribner were still important names in the industry in 2000.

In September 2001, Random House, Penguin Putnam, Harper Collins, and Simon and Schuster, all rival publishing houses, entered into a agreement to bypass established online booksellers and sell e-books directly on the Yahoo! Web site.

The magazine, which celebrated its bicentennial in 2015, is currently edited by Grant Tracey, Brooke Wonders, J. D. Schraffenberger, Rachel Morgan, Brian Pals, and Gary Kelley.