Other pioneer ebook readers were launched in 1999, for example
EveryBook and the Millennium eBook (Librius). EveryBook (EB) was "a
living library in a single book". The EveryBook's electronic storage
could hold 100 textbooks or 500 novels. The EveryBook used a "hidden"
modem to dial into the EveryBook Store, for people to browse, purchase,
and receive full text books, magazines, and sheet music. The Millennium
eBook was a "small low-cost" ebook reader launched by Librius, a "full-
service e-commerce company". Librius's website offered a World
Bookstore that "delivered digital copies of thousands of books" via the
internet.
1999 > A website for the Ulysses Bookstore, the oldest travel bookstore
in the world
Created in 1971 by Catherine Domain in the center of Paris, France, on
Ile Saint-Louis in the middle of the river Seine, the Ulysses Bookstore
(Librairie Ulysse) is the oldest travel bookstore in the world, with
20,000 books, maps and magazines, out of print and new. Catherine, an
avid traveler herself, started a website in early 1999, as a virtual
travel in the field of computing, and wrote in November 2000: "My site
is still pretty basic and under construction. Like my bookstore, it is
a place to meet people before being a place of business. The internet
is a pain in the neck, takes a lot of my time and I earn hardly any
money, but that doesn't worry me... I am very pessimistic though,
because it is killing off specialist bookstores." (NEF Interview)