Board Thread:Editor Board/@comment-124.244.140.2-20131005120439/@comment-1173941-20131006061345

ME3 states it takes place in 2016, because it follows the timeline of the Web Novel. Because this wiki is about the timeline in the Light Novel (and its adaptions and extensions,) we changed the date (all Light Novel dates are basically Web Novel dates, but with 10 extra years)

Yeah, the Material Edition seems to have been a Hard Copy. Some of the stories were written at different times it seems, but they were in the end published all together, around 2011... at least, 1-6, seem to have been.

Gsi has a copy of the raw in his Raws folder on Dropbox, and it seems it was released under "Sword Art Online; Material Edition, Assemblage," which included ME1-6, "There is but One Ultimate Way", and some early art by reki, from the first three arcs...

Not sure where ME 7-9 were published, but yeah...