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Originally Posted by ardeegee
And another illustration of exactly what less-use isn't. Parkour is "a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible." Again, the name for the concept comes from a foreign language because it is the culture that introduced the concept. Which is the utterly natural way that new words are introduced into a language. But the French did not invent the electronic book reader. Which invalidates the analogy utterly. |
just for the record, although it is surprising in light of the relative ignorance of the general french public with regards to ebooks, they actually have a long history here.
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Bookeen, a french company founded in Paris, one of the pioneers of the ebook hardware companies, has been making liseuses since 2003, and was founded by original members of
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Cytale, creator of the Cybook, founded in Paris in 1998, who were making liseuses back in 1998.
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Mobipocket is a french company,
founded in Paris in 2000.
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Feedbooks is more recent but arguably unique, and is also french.
I don't know whether any of these were "first" but definitely among the first and certainly proof of a significant history here.