Without a doubt, the question that gives title to this article is an interesting one, as well as a curious question for a Monday morning and that surely many of you have asked yourself on occasion. Today I am going to try to resolve your doubt or curiosity with this little article.
We have already talked from time to time in this same place about the inventor of the electronic book and we have reviewed the "Fiske's reading machine", the daring creation of Agostino Ramelli and even the Galician project Angela Ruiz that he baptized as "The mechanical encyclopedia" But today we are going to try to get closer to the company that created the eReader as we know it today.
In 1998 the Californian company NuvoMedia, which had a significant investment from Barnes & Noble and Bertelsmann was the first to design and launch an electronic book very much like the ones we can buy today in almost any bookstore or commercial area. It was called "The Rocket eBook" and it was put on sale in the United States without much success so it never went on sale in other countries of the rest of the world.
It took almost six years, until the year 2004 for a company, specifically Sony, to take up the idea of electronic books and launched its version of eReader with the one known as e-ink (electronic ink), which allowed and it allows readers not to strain their eyes too much when reading.
This new Sony eReader began to have moderate success although it was not until 2007 when the Amazon Kindle came onto the market and with it the real revolution in the literary world.
Since the first Sony and Amazon models, many companies have joined the idea of developing and marketing their own eReader and today there are dozens of devices that we can find available on the market.
Did you know that in 1998 you could enjoy an eReader in the United States?.
More information - The “Fiske Reading Machine”, the first eReader in history Agostino Ramelli and the wheel of books The electronic book was devised by a Galician in 1949
Source - quo.mx/2013