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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Amazon is wrong here. Sony was the company that started with a Reader that used eInk. The first eInk based reader released in the US was the Sony Reader PRS-505.
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And Palm using Mobi from Mobipocket was the first popular ebook platform. Then Windows CE PDAs and Symbian phones had Mobi.
Amazon bought and buried Mobipocket in 2005.
Their success in ebooks is for similar reasons to their success at online sales of paper books. Not the technology.
Sony was first with commercial eInk, but ebooks were already well established.
Project Gutenberg was started in 1971! I was downloading and reading on my Laptop from 2004.
Though people DID read on the Palm 160 x 160 pixel PDA.
In 2004 Sony released the Librié in Japan, the first e-book reader with an electronic paper E Ink display. Sony released the PRS-500 Sony Reader e-book reader in September 2006 in the USA. I saw a Sony in Dublin 2007 but couldn't afford it.
Mobipocket was founded in 2000, bought by Amazon in 2005. Amazon released the Kindle, its first e-reader, on November 19, 2007.