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Michael S. Hart types the US Declaration of Independence into a computer and launches Project Gutenberg.
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Italian students F. Crugnola and I. Rigamonti design and create the first e-book reader, called Incipit, as a thesis project.
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Sites such as eReader.com and eReads.com begin to sell e-books in English.
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Rocket ebook and SoftBook are the first e-readers to be successfully launched.
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Random House and HarperCollins start to sell digital versions of their titles in English.
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Google announces plans to digitize the holdings of several major libraries, as part of what would later be called the Google Books Library Project.
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Google is sued for copyright infringement by the Authors Guild for scanning books still in copyright.[39]
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BooksOnBoard, one of the largest independent ebookstores, opens and sells ebooks and audiobooks in six different formats.
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Amazon launches Kindle in US.
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BooksOnBoard is the first retailer to sell ebooks for iPhones.
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BooksOnBoard is first to sell ebooks for iPhones.
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Apple releases the iPad with an e-book application called 'iBooks'. Between April and October 2010, Apple sold 7 million iPads.
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Amazon releases the third generation Kindle, available in Wi-Fi versions.
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Google launches 'Google eBooks 'to mixed reactions, some users commenting on its' lack of book reviews and poor interface.
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Amazon announces that its e-book sales now exceed all of its printed book sales.
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Apple releases 'iBooks Author', a type of software used for creating e-books that can be directly published in its iBooks bookstore.