In 1950, publisher Albert Boni, co-founder of the Modern Library, formed the Readex Microprint Corporation in New York City.
[1] Some of the companies Readex partnered with early on included the American Antiquarian Society and the Library of Congress.
In 2007, Readex announced a Web-based edition of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996—the record of political and historical open-source intelligence for the United States government.
In 2008, Readex announced a partnership with the Center for Research Libraries to launch an online World Newspaper Archive.
Collections include historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America and South Asia between 1800 and 1922.