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Originally Posted by kennyc
I'm thinking Sony may have been the first so why not a Japanese word?
Here's the wikipedia timeline which is interesting and indicated that Sony was the first:
2006: Sony presents the Sony Reader with e-ink.
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i think you'll find that 1998 predates 2006 by approximately 8 years.
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1998: Cybook / Cybook Gen1 Sold and manufactured at first by Cytale (1998–2003) then by Bookeen
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Originally Posted by TGS
Who in their right mind would want to use a nasty Japanese word when there's a perfectly good French word that the whole world already uses?
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