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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Okay okay bad example. Got 'nother one though.
When Aldus Page Maker started to get popular on the Mac and then on the PC, it was used in prepress to help process books faster. They weren't named ebooks then but they were. If my memory serves me right it was just about 1990. Any ebook reading devices then? Asides from computers?
Next time I'll Wiki my words first.  |
Well PG started in 1971 producing eBooks or at least computer text files. I have a CDROM for 1993 called Complete Bookshop with lots of books. It included a PC program to read the books which are basically text files. Certainly text files existed before eBook Readers and Psion had the ability to read eBooks as early as 1994 according to an earlier entry in this thread.
Franklin had some bookman readers (The old 2-4 line devices with a cartridge and one book built-in such as a bible.) These date back to the 1989 I believe according to the copyright on the back of one that I own.
Dale