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From 600 AD European production of books was concentrated in monasteries.

730 AD: The largest known library in Britain, belonging to the Venerable Bede, consists of 300-500 books.

1440: Johannes Gutenberg invents the first printing press, making mass-production of books possible. A typical print run is 100-300 copies.

1861: In its first year of publication, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management sells an estimated 60,000 copies. By 1868 it has sold nearly two million copies.

2005: Worldwide sales of the Harry Potter series of books pass 300,000,000.

1910: 8,468 new books published in the UK.

The first email was sent in 1971. 294 billion emails were sent in 2010. The first text message was sent in 1989. 1.5 trillion text messages were sent in 2010, rising to 7 trillion in 2011.

97% of the books published in the history of the world were published in the last hundred years. If you read a book a day, it would take more than 350,000 years to get through them all.

Ecclesiastes 12:12 ‘Of making many books, there is no end…’ (New International Version)