A History of EBooks
by Marie Lebert
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Chapters (24)
- A SHORT HISTORY OF EBOOKS
- MARIE LEBERT
- TABLE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1971: PROJECT GUTENBERG IS THE FIRST DIGITAL LIBRARY
- 1990: THE WEB BOOSTS THE INTERNET
- 1993: THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE IS A LIST OF FREE EBOOKS
- 1994: SOME PUBLISHERS GET BOLD AND GO DIGITAL
- 1995: AMAZON.COM IS THE FIRST MAIN ONLINE BOOKSTORE
- 1996: THERE ARE MORE AND MORE TEXTS ONLINE
- 1997: MULTIMEDIA CONVERGENCE AND EMPLOYMENT
- 1998: LIBRARIES TAKE OVER THE WEB
- 1999: LIBRARIANS GET DIGITAL
- 2000: INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE IN MANY LANGUAGES
- 2001: COPYRIGHT, COPYLEFT AND CREATIVE COMMONS
- 2002: A WEB OF KNOWLEDGE
- 2003: EBOOKS ARE SOLD WORLDWIDE
- 2004: AUTHORS ARE CREATIVE ON THE NET
- 2005: GOOGLE GETS INTERESTED IN EBOOKS
- 2006: TOWARDS A WORLD PUBLIC DIGITAL LIBRARY
- 2007: WE READ ON VARIOUS ELECTRONIC DEVICES
- 2008: "A COMMON INFORMATION SPACE IN WHICH WE COMMUNICATE"
- CHRONOLOGY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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