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Once introduced to technological entertainment many kids find playing with Barbies or Lego no longer entertaining or enjoyable. This means that in the future these kids will only be interested in things which come in a digital format. In addition due to the rapid technological changes it will become harder and more expensive for parents to keep up with the latest versions in order to keep the savvy kids happy. <br> | Once introduced to technological entertainment many kids find playing with Barbies or Lego no longer entertaining or enjoyable. This means that in the future these kids will only be interested in things which come in a digital format. In addition due to the rapid technological changes it will become harder and more expensive for parents to keep up with the latest versions in order to keep the savvy kids happy. <br> | ||
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It is hard to get the milestones of all entertainment technologies however the Play Station timeline is a good representative of the fast trends:<br> | It is hard to get the milestones of all entertainment technologies however the Play Station timeline is a good representative of the fast trends:<br> | ||
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'''E-Books Usage''' <br> | |||
E-books are electronic version of documents which come in multiple formats (pdf, txt, html etc) and can be read by multiple devices (computers, phones, PlayStation Portable). The main advantage of e-books is that they are portable and do not take a lot of hard drive space to store. <br> | |||
''Enablers:''<br> | |||
Web services <br> | |||
Increasing number of PCs and computer literacy <br> | |||
Global warming concerns<br> | |||
Rapid technological changes<br> | |||
''Inhibitors:''<br> | |||
Health warning about eye damage from spending too much time in front of monitors<br> | |||
The need of a device and power to read the E-book<br> | |||
Plagiarism concerns <br> | |||
''Paradigms:''<br> | |||
With the increase of computer literacy and global warming concerns the number of e-books will continue to increase and will find deeper roots in areas such as education and business. In time whole libraries will be replaced with easily accessible e-library and make life more convenient. <br> | |||
''Timing:''<br> | |||
1971: Michael S. Hart launches the Gutenberg Project.<br> | |||
1985-1992 Robert Stein starts Voyager Company Expanded Books and books on CD-ROMs.<br> | |||
1992: Charles Stack's Book Stacks Unlimited begins selling new physical books online.<br> | |||
1993: Zahur Klemath Zapata develops the first [1] software to read digital books. Digital book version 1 and the first digital book is published On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (Thomas de Quincey).<br> | |||
1993: Digital Book, Inc. offers the first 50 digital books in Floppy disk with Digital Book Format (DBF).<br> | |||
1993: Hugo Award for Best Novel nominee texts published on CD-ROM by Brad Templeton.<br> | |||
1993: Bibliobytes, a project of free digital books online in Internet.<br> | |||
1995: Amazon starts to sell physical books in Internet.<br> | |||
1995: Online poet Alexis Kirke discusses the need for wireless internet electronic paper readers in his article "The Emuse".<br> | |||
1996: Project Gutenberg reaches 1,000 titles. The target is 1,000,000<br> | |||
1998 Kim Blagg obtained the first ISBN issued to an ebook and began marketing multimedia-enhanced ebooks on CDs through retailers including amazon.com, bn.com and borders.com. Shortly thereafter through her company "Books OnScreen" she introduced the ebooks at the Book Expo America in Chicago, IL to an impressed, but unconvinced bookseller audience.<br> | |||
1998: Launched the first ebook Readers: Rocket ebook and SoftBook.<br> | |||
1998: Cybook / Cybook Gen1 Sold and manufactured at first by Cytale (19982003) then by Bookeen<br> | |||
1998-1999: Websites selling ebooks in English, like eReader.com and eReads.com.<br> | |||
1999: Baen Books opens up the Baen Free Library.<br> | |||
1999: Webscriptions starts selling unencrypted eBooks.<br> | |||
2000: Microsoft launches Microsoft Reader with ClearType technology.<br> | |||
2000: Stephen King offers his book "Riding the Bullet" in digital file; it can only be read on a computer.<br> | |||
2001: Todoebook.com, the first website selling ebooks in Spanish.<br> | |||
2002: Random House and HarperCollins start to sell digital versions of their titles in English.<br> | |||
2005: Amazon buys Mobipocket.<br> | |||
2005: Bookboon.com is launched, allowing people to download free textbooks and travel guide eBooks<br> | |||
2006: Sony presents the Sony Reader with e-ink.<br> | |||
2006: LibreDigital launched BookBrowse as an online reader for publisher content.<br> | |||
2006: BooksOnBoard, the largest independent ebookstore, opens and sells ebooks and audiobooks in six different formats.<br> | |||
2007: Zahurk Technologies, Corp,launched the first[citation needed] digital book library on Internet BibliotecaKlemath.com ', loslibrosditales.com ' and ?digitalbook.us'<br> | |||
2007: Amazon launches Kindle in US.<br> | |||
2007: Bookeen launched Cybook Gen3 in Europe.<br> | |||
2008: Adobe and Sony agreed to share their technologies (Reader and DRM).<br> | |||
2008: Sony sells the Sony Reader PRS-505 in UK and France<br> | |||
2008: BooksOnBoard is first to sell ebooks for iPhones.<br> | |||
2009: myebook.com launches as a free ebook creation and publishing platform for media rich ebooks.<br> | |||
2009: Bookeen releases the Cybook Opus in the US and in Europe.<br> | |||
2009: Sony releases the Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition<br> | |||
2009: Amazon releases the Kindle 2.<br> | |||
2009: Amazon releases the Kindle DX in the US.<br> | |||
2009: Barnes & Noble releases the Nook in the US.<br> | |||
2009: Bookboon.com achieves over 10 Million downloads in one year - placing the company as the world's largest publisher of free eBooks<br> | |||
2010: Amazon releases the Kindle DX International Edition worldwide.<br> | |||
2010: Bookeen reveals the Cybook Orizon at CES.<br> | |||
2010: TurboSquid Magazine announces first magazine publication using Apple's iTunes LP format.<br> | |||
2010: Apple releases the iPad with an e-book app called iBooks. Since its release in April 2010, as of June, Apple has sold 2 million iPads.<br> | |||
2010: Kobo Inc. releases its Kobo eReader to be sold at Indigo/Chapters in Canada and Borders in the United States.<br> | |||
2010: Amazon.com reported that its e-book sales outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time ever during the second quarter of 2010.<br> | |||
2010: Amazon releases the third generation kindle, available in 3G+Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi versions<br> | |||
''Web Resources:''<br> | |||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book<br> | |||