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In 1971, Michael S. Hart launched Project Gutenberg and digitized the U.S., becoming the first eBook in the world.
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The Voyager Company was founded and published "expanded books" on CD-ROM
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Digital Book Inc offered the first 50 digital books on floppy disk.
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The first dedicated eBook readers were launched: Rocket Ebook and Softbook.
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The first ISBN number was obtained for an eBook.
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US Libraries began providing free eBooks to the public through their websites and associated services.
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Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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Stephen King released his novella Riding the Bullet as a digital-only computer-readable file.
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Random House and HarperCollins started to sell digital versions of their publications.
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Amazon launched the Kindle eBook reader in the US.
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Barnes & Noble launched the Nook eBook reader.
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eBook sales at Amazon outpaced paperback book sales in US.
