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The First Ebook
The first electronic reader was invented by a woman named Angela Ruiz Robles. Angela Ruis Robles was a school teacher, who watched her students lug text books back and forth from school every day. The idea was that her reader would be far easier to carry for school children. In Angela’s first design, smaller amount of text where printed onto spools and were operated by compressed air. She made her first prototype in 1949. http://historycooperative.org/a-history-of-e-books/ -
The Actual First Ebook
Hart came up with a good use of the computer time he had been given. He typed the text into a computer, all in capitals as there was no lower-case option at the time, and sent out a message on the internet saying that it was now available to download. Six people took him up on the offer and downloaded the text. The world’s first e-book was born. -
The First Book
The first hyper text book was titled Afternoon by Michael Joyce and was available for purchase on floppy disk. This books was created as the first demonstration of a new online program called Story Space. Story Space was a software program available for Personal computers for creating, editing and reading hypertext fiction. -
BiblioBytes
BiblioBytes launched a website to sell ebooks over the internet, the first company to create a financial exchange system for it. -
Handhelds!
NuroMedia released the first handheld ebook reader, the Rocket, which allowed ebooks to be downloaded from a PC from a serial cable. -
New Imprints and Ibooks
American publisher Simon & Schuster created a new imprint, ibooks, and became the first trade publisher simultaneously to publish titles in ebook and print format. -
Adobe
Adobe launched its latest ebook reader software, an updated version of the Glassbook reader, allowing users to underline, take notes and bookmark. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/03/ebooks.technology -
PerfectBoud
Harper Collins launched its international ebook imprint, PerfectBound. http://www.writewords.org.uk/directory/detail_page.asp?subtypeid3=1429&directory_id=4636 -
Time Warner Books
Time Warner Books launched its ebook imprint, ipublish. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/about/company-history/ -
It's Done
Time Warner closed ipublish, saying: "The market for ebooks has simply not developed the way we hoped."
