Barnes & Noble.com started its eBookStore in August 2000, following a
partnership with Microsoft in January 2000 to sell digital books for
the Microsoft Reader. Barnes & Noble.com also partnered with Adobe in
August 2000 to sell books for the Acrobat Reader and the Glassbook
Reader - Adobe had just bought Glassbook, its reader and its digital
bookstore.
September 2000 > GDT, the largest bilingual online French-English
dictionary
The OQLF (Office Québécois de la Langue Française - Quebecois Office of
the French Language) launched in September 2000 the GDT (Grand
Dictionnaire Terminologique -- Main Terminological Dictionary), a free
online bilingual French-English dictionary with 3 million terms related
to industry, science and commerce. This online version was a
technological challenge, and the result of a partnership between the
OQLF, author of the dictionary, and Semantix, a company specializing in
linguistic software. During the first month, the GDT counted 1.3
million individual visits, with peaks of 60,000 daily visits. The
database was then maintained by Convera Canada, with 3.5 million hits
per month in February 2003. A revamped version of the GDT went online
in March 2003. The database is presently maintained by the OQLF
itself, with the addition of Latin as a third language.