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a device in which an individual stores all his books, records and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with amazing speed and flexibility.%u201D He described a desk where the book can be projected on a transparent platen and can be paged through slowly or rapidly as necessary.
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Andries van Dam and a team from Brown University develops a method for text to be stored and retrieved on computers.
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Hart keyed in the Declaration of Independence as the first Project Gutenberg ASCII file.
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First desktop publisher released for Macintosh.
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Written using Storyspace software Afternoon: A story was one of the first hypertext ebooks to come under serious scrutiny. It was announced at the ACM Conference on Hypertext and was published on floppy disk.
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Sony Discman played audio and data CDs in a proprietary ebook format.
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NetLibrary provides library patrons who have internet browsers access to ebooks online.
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Google announces a joint venture with major libraries to scan books. It it later renamed Google Book Search.
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Google can show up to 20% of a text online for free and make the entire book available online for a fee. Books in the public domain are available in their entirety for free.
