Engineering:Rocket eBook
| Developer | NuvoMedia |
|---|---|
| Release date | 1998 |
The Rocket eBook is an early commercial handheld e-reader that was produced by NuvoMedia in late 1998; it uses a LCD screen and can store up to ten e-books.[1][2] E-books are loaded on the device by connecting it to a computer, the device has two page turn buttons. Rocket-compatible e-books were sold online at Barnes & Noble and Powell's Bookstore.[3] It had a retail price of $499.
The Rocket eBook was manufactured by NuvoMedia until 2000, when it was purchased by Gemstar-TV Guide International for $187 million.[4] After purchasing NuvoMedia and merging it with SoftBook, Gemstar released an e-reader called the RCA eBook Reader.[4]
NuvoMedia
On April 15, 1997, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded NuvoMedia to make a product that could benefit from improving battery size and settled on designing an electronic book reader; the resulting Rocket eBook e-reader sold 20,000 units in 1999.[5]
References
- ↑ eBooks: 1998 – The first ebook readers. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ Kozlowski, Michael. "The Tale of Rocketbook – The very first e-reader" (in en-US). https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-tale-of-rocketbook-the-very-first-e-reader.
- ↑ David Strom. "E-Books: Still an Unfinished Work". Computerworld, Jul 19, 1999. p. 76.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hossein Bidgoli. The Internet Encyclopedia. John Wiley and Sons, 2004. p. 790. ISBN:978-0-471-22202-6
- ↑ Baer, Drake. "The Making Of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, And The Birth Of The Roadster". Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10.
External links
- "The Tale of Rocketbook – The very first e-reader", Good E-Reader, 2018
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