It's not really known why only Titan has a thick atmosphere while moons like Ganymede don't.
One thought is that temperatures may have been too high (well above ~40K) in the Jovian subnebula of our solar system due to the greater gravitational potential energy release, mass, and proximity to the Sun, greatly reducing the $NH_{3}$-hydrate inventory accreted by both Callisto and Ganymede. The resulting $N_{2}$ atmospheres might have been too thin to survive the atmospheric erosion effects that Titan has withstood.
EDIT: some links:
http://perso.utinam.cnrs.fr/~mousis/papier3.pdf (though it's from 2002).
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ttt..work...25N (this paper critiques the previous idea of a $CH_{4}$ supported atmosphere)
I would also think the NASA/JPL Cassini pages would have any up-to-date info in regards to Titan.