Front page of The Gentleman's Magazine, founded by Edward Cave in London in January 1731.
The increased consumption of reading materials of all sorts was one of the key features of the "social" Enlightenment. The Industrial Revolution allowed consumer goods to be produced in greater quantities at lower prices, encouraging the spread of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and journals. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry.
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