Project Gutenberg 2010-08-18 Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details. 212 Lebert, Marie Booknology: The eBook (1971-2010) Produced by Al Haines "Booknology: The eBook (1971-2010)" by Marie Lebert is a historical account written in the early 21st century. The work details the evolution of electronic books over a span of four decades, charting significant developments and milestones that shaped the digital publishing landscape. It serves as a comprehensive exploration of how eBooks have integrated into our reading habits and technological advancements, especially with the rise of the internet. At the start of the book, readers are introduced to the genesis of ebooks, beginning with Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971 as a pioneering initiative to digitize literary works for free public access. The opening also touches on the early internet development, highlighting how innovations like TCP/IP and the World Wide Web facilitated the spread of electronic texts. The timeline spans numerous critical events that contributed to the digital transformation of literature, from the inception of the first electronic agendas and dictionaries to the emergence of major online bookstores and new reading devices such as ebook readers and PDAs, culminating in the vibrant ecosystem of digital reading as it stood in 2010. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Electronic books Z Text Browsing: Computers & Technology Browsing: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference Browsing: Teaching & Education 138696 138649 2024-09-14T07:29:04.493366 2023-09-14T12:04:05.743964 text/html text/html 138689 138642 2024-09-14T07:29:04.652410 2023-09-14T12:04:05.887950 text/html text/html 98289 2024-09-14T07:29:08.233348 application/epub+zip 99299 2024-09-14T07:29:05.867346 application/epub+zip 99299 2024-09-14T07:29:05.100370 application/epub+zip 200696 2024-09-14T07:29:10.046360 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 191583 2024-09-14T07:29:07.771337 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 165507 2022-09-15T10:02:03.370304 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 124968 124964 2024-09-14T07:29:04.198346 2023-09-14T12:04:05.472940 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 126117 2010-12-05T10:04:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 45291 2010-12-05T10:05:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 126112 2010-12-05T10:04:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 45253 2010-12-05T10:05:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19068 2024-09-14T07:29:10.183330 application/rdf+xml 12562 2024-09-14T07:29:05.435353 image/jpeg 3086 2024-09-14T07:29:05.265337 image/jpeg 99257 2024-09-14T07:29:04.664360 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog