Progress of Ebooks

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    Development of Ebooks

  • Michael S. Hart launches Project Gutenberg to create electronic copies of books.

    Michael S. Hart types the US Declaration of Independence into a computer and launches Project Gutenberg.
    Project Gutenberg

  • The first e-book reader is created.

    Italian students F. Crugnola and I. Rigamonti design and create the first e-book reader, called Incipit, as a thesis project.

  • Websites begin to sell ebooks

    Sites such as eReader.com and eReads.com begin to sell e-books in English.

  • First ebook readers are launched

    Rocket ebook and SoftBook are the first e-readers to be successfully launched.

  • Random House and HarperCollins start to sell digital titles

    Random House and HarperCollins start to sell digital versions of their titles in English.

  • Google announces plans to create the Google Books Library Project

    Google announces plans to digitize the holdings of several major libraries, as part of what would later be called the Google Books Library Project.

  • Google is sued for copyright infringement

    Google is sued for copyright infringement by the Authors Guild for scanning books still in copyright.[39]

  • BooksOnBoard begins to sell ebooks and audiobooks

    BooksOnBoard, one of the largest independent ebookstores, opens and sells ebooks and audiobooks in six different formats.

  • Amazon launches Kindle

    Amazon launches Kindle in US.

  • BooksOnBoard is the first to sell ebooks for iPhones

    BooksOnBoard is the first retailer to sell ebooks for iPhones.

  • BooksOnBoard is the first to sell ebooks for iPhones.

    BooksOnBoard is first to sell ebooks for iPhones.

  • Apple releases the iPad and iBooks.

    Apple releases the iPad with an e-book application called 'iBooks'. Between April and October 2010, Apple sold 7 million iPads.

  • Amazon comes out with third generation Kindle with Wi-Fi

    Amazon releases the third generation Kindle, available in Wi-Fi versions.

  • Google eBooks launched

    Google launches 'Google eBooks 'to mixed reactions, some users commenting on its' lack of book reviews and poor interface.

  • Amazon's e-book sales exceed printed book sales.

    Amazon announces that its e-book sales now exceed all of its printed book sales.

  • Apple releases Ibooks Author

    Apple releases 'iBooks Author', a type of software used for creating e-books that can be directly published in its iBooks bookstore.