E-Books

Be read only by small groups of interested and dedicated. The scope of the subject matter of these e-books included technical manuals for hardware, technical processing, and other disciplines. Many e-book formats emerged and proliferated, some supported by major software companies like Adobe's PDF format and support to other independent developers and open source code. Multiple readers naturally followed multiple formats, most of them specializing in only one format, and thereby fragmenting the e-book market even more. Due to the exclusive and limited readers of e-books, the market for independent and specialist authors fractures lack consensus on a standard for packaging and selling e-books. E-books continued to gain ground in their own markets. Many e-publishers began distributing books that were in the public domain.

At the same time, authors of books that were not accepted by publishers offered their works online so they could be viewed by others. Unofficial (and possibly unauthorized) catalogs of books became available over the network and sites devoted to e-books began disseminating information about e-books to the public. From 2009, new models for marketing e-books were developed and dedicated reading hardware has been produced. E-books (as opposed to ebook readers) have yet to achieve global distribution. Only two e-readers to dominate the market, Amazon's Kindle model or Sony's PRS-500. However, not all authors have supported the concept of electronic publishing. JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, held that no versions of its e-books e-books


e-books

1971: Michael S. Hart launches the Gutenberg Project.

1985-1992 Bob Stein starts Voyager Company Expanded Books and books on CD-ROMs.

1993: Zahur Klemath Zapata develops the first software to read digital books. Digital Book v.1 and the first digital book is published On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (Thomas de Quincey).

1993: Digital Book, Inc. offers the first 50 digital books in Floppy disk with Digital Book Format (DBF).

1993: Hugo Award for Best Novel nominee texts published on CD-ROM by Brad Templeton.

1993: Bibliobytes, a project of free digital books online in Internet.

1995: Amazon starts to sell physical books in Internet.

1996: Project Gutenberg reaches 1.000 titles. The target is 1.000.000

1998: Launched the first ebook Readers: Rocket ebook and Softbook.

1998-1999: Websites selling ebooks in English, like eReader.com and eReads.com.

2000: Stephen King offers his book "Riding the Bullet" in digital file, it only can be read in computer.

2001: Todoebook.com, the first website selling ebooks in Spanish.

2002: Random House and HarperCollins start to sell digital versions of their titles in English.

2005: Amazon bought Mobipocket like a strategic positioning.

2006: Sony presents the Sony Reader with e-ink.

2006: LibreDigital launched BookBrowse as an online reader for publisher content.

2007: Zahurk Technologies, Corp,launched the first digital book library on Internet ‘BibliotecaKlemath.com’, ‘loslibrosditales.com’ and ‘digitalbook.us’

2007: Amazon launched Kindle in US.

2008: Adobe and Sony agreed to share their technologies (Reader and DRM).

2008: Sony sells the Sony Reader PRS-505 in UK and France

2008: Amazon launched Kindle 2 in US.

2009: Amazon releases the Kindle DX in the US