A little history to Amazon Kindle and ebooks

By Florida, on May 27th, 2010

first December 1971 Project Gutenberg was started by Michael S. Hart. The main objective of Project Gutenberg is to encourage the promotion of creation and distribution of ebooks. Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library. Most of the books in Project Gutenberg public domain. . . That is, they are not protected, and copy may be freely distributed. The books are available in open format that will run on any computer. The books are in English and is mostly text-only format, but also books in other formats such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI and Plucker (I’ll explain later in these formats). Project Gutenberg currently fifty adds new ebooks every week.

In 1985, Robert began stone Voyager Company, which had ebooks in CD-ROMs. In 1993, a person named CC Zapata created the first eBook Reader software called Digital Book V. 1 The same year, Digital Book Inc. offered 50 books in digital format to Book a floppy disk. In 1995, Amazon began selling books (paper based books) on the Internet. In 1998, two ebook reader Rocket eBook and Softbook started where. In 1999, many websites such as eReader. com and eReader. com poped up in 2000, “Riding the Bullet” by Stephen King was offered as an eBook. In 2005, Amazon (unfortunately) bought Mobipocket (I’ll tell you the reason later). In 2006 Sony introduced its very own eBook reader called the Sony Reader. In 2007 was launched in the U.S. by Amazon Kindle. In 2008, Adobe and Sony made an agreement to share technologies. Kindle 2 was introduced in 2008 (again only in USA) and in 2009 Kindle DX (big brother) was launched. Recently Kindle 2 was “allowed”, to be sold outside the U.S..

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