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Originally Posted by Jellby
2005, I believe.
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Interesting, that's what this has:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ions_by_Amazon
I'd thought I read somewhere it was 2015 (
2005) in response to release of Sony's eink that year. Sony did have a couple of LCD based ereaders in the 1990s:
Discman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Discman
Bookman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_M..._CD-ROM_Player
So even less excuse for Amazon in 2017 (
2007)! The original kindles also only did L to R and essentially Latin-Roman alphabet (with some Greek and Scandinavian). Yet that was a solved problem on DOS. Unicode was common by 2008. UTF8 was released in 1998.
Open eBook (OEB) AKA the Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS) is essentially epub1 and was open sourced in 1999. It was used on an ereader in 1998.
Amazon Kindle in [2017 first release was thus over 20 years] (
2007 and 10 years) out of date on language, alphabet and font support (totally USA English centric) and used an ebook format over /1/5
5 years obsolete and they'd had /TWELVE/
MANY YEARS, though Kindle development might only have started in /2015/
2005.
Amazon are NOT a tech company. They are a modern version of Victorian mail order and 1960s Computer time rental. They buy in tech and use it poorly.
The Fire is simply an Android Tablet.
The Fire TV, is copied from the dreadful Android TV.
Note that Google bought in Android, and MTP was developed by MS to help DRM on the Zune (originally based on a Japanese MP3 player).
EDIT 2005 & 2007, not 2015 & 2017