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A short history of ebooks

by: Lebert, Marie

Publication date: 2021

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Topics: history of ebooks, Project Gutenberg

Collection: opensource

Contributor: Renard, Denis

Language: English

[French version]

[Spanish version]

By Marie Lebert, an ebook about ebooks, including great projects like Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Google Books, Wikipedia and Creative Commons, as well as ebook formats (PDF and EPUB), e-readers, and more. Please see also a shorter version with 20 drawings by Denis Renard.

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Previous ebooks:

2011 > The ebook is 40 (1971-2011) [+ source]

2010 > Booknology. The ebook (1971-2010) [+ source]

2009 > A short history of ebooks [+ source]

2008 > Technology and books for all [+ source] [+ artwork]

2002 > Interviews (in English) [+ source]

2002 > Interviews (in English, French and Spanish) [+ source]

2000 > From the print media to the internet [+ source]