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A History of EBooks

A History of EBooks

by Marie Lebert

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Author
Lebert, Marie
Credits
Produced by Al Haines
Language
English
LoC Class
Z: Bibliography, Library science
Subject
Electronic books
Category
Text
eBook-No.
29801
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29801
Release Date
August 26, 2009
Copyright
Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.A 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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