[5] The press was officially launched by Irish poet Leanne O'Sullivan at the City Library, Cork, on 5 April 2013.
[15][16] New Binary Press published a number of works of electronic literature, most notably by artists like Nick Montfort, Stephanie Strickland, Jason Nelson, and John Barber.
[18][19] In 2017, two born-digital works published by New Binary Press, The Bafflement Fires by Jason Nelson and novelling, were shortlisted for the Turn on Literature Prize, co-funded by the European Union's Creative Europe Programme.
[citation needed] In 2017, the press published The Elysian: Creative Responses, an anthology of poetry, short fiction and critical essays.
[22] The collection uses the symbol of The Elysian building in Cork city to reflect on the excesses of Celtic Tiger Ireland.