TABLE OF CONTENTS

1971 > Project Gutenberg, a visionary project

1974 > The internet “took off”

1990 > The invention of the web

1991 > From ASCII to Unicode

1992 > Homes for electronic texts

1993 > The Online Books Page

1993 > PDF, from past to present

1994 > The internet as a marketing tool

1995 > The print press went online

1995 > Amazon, a pioneer in cybercommerce

1996 > The Internet Archive, for future generations

1996 > Libraries launched websites

1996 > Towards a digital knowledge

1996 > The @folio project, a mobile device for texts

1997 > Multimedia convergence

1997 > A portal for European national libraries

1997 > E Ink, an electronic ink technology

1998 > The Electronic Beowulf Project

1998 > Web-extended commercial books

1998 > A more restrictive copyright law

1998 > The first ebook readers

1999 > Librarians in cyberspace

1999 > The Ulysses Bookstore on the web

1999 > The internet as a novel character

2000 > Encyclopedias and dictionaries

2000 > The web portal yourDictionary.com

2000 > A standard format for ebooks

2000 > Experiments by best-selling authors

2000 > Cotres.net, works of digital literature

2000 > The Gutenberg Bible online

2001 > Broadband became the norm

2001 > Wikipedia, a collaborative encyclopedia

2001 > The Creative Commons license

2003 > Handicapzéro, the internet for everyone

2003 > The Public Library of Science

2004 > The web 2.0, community and sharing

2005 > From PDAs to smartphones

2005 > From Google Print to Google Books

2005 > The Open Content Alliance, a universal library

2006 > The union catalog WorldCat on the web

2007 > The Encyclopedia of Life, a global effort

2007 > The future of ebooks seen from France

2010 > From the Librié to the iPad

2011 > The ebook in ten points

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