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Copied from an Amazon Forum, I think it's accurate
CBRetriever says:
(KINDLE FORUM PRO)
2007 the early days? Not quite.
1971 - Project Gutenberg was launched to create electronic copies of books.
1985-1992 Robert Stein starts Voyager Company Expanded Books and books on CD-ROM.
1992 - The DD8 Data DiscmanSony launches the Data Discman electronic book reader.
1992-1993 - Crugnola and Rigamonti design and create the first e-book reader, called Incipit, as a thesis project at the Politecnico di Milano.
1994 - C & M Online is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina and publishes e-books through its imprint, Boson Books.
1997 - E-Ink Corporation is founded
1998 - The Cybook / Cybook Gen1 was sold and manufactured at first by Cytale (1998-2003) then by Bookeen and Websites began selling ebooks in English, such as eReader.com and eReads.com
1999 - Baen began selling ebooks
2002-2003 (LE bought Lois Bujold ebooks from Fictionwise)
2002 - Random House and HarperCollins begin selling ebooks
2004 - Sony introduces first e-ink reader and Google starts to digitise books
2005 - Amazon buys Mobipocket (French company)
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Last edited by Little.Egret; 05-13-2014 at 07:12 PM.
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