A Short History of Ebooks: from the French-speaking, European and International perspective
By Paul Biba
Received the following email that I thought was well worth passing on:
Dear David and Paul:
I just spent ten years covering e-books in the French-speaking, European and international community.
I wrote my last ebook, “A Short History of eBooks”, in three versions (French, English, Spanish).
The English version — meant to share this work with English-speaking readers, for them to get another perspective — is published online by NEF (Net des Etudes Francaises / Net of French Studies), University of Toronto:
http://www.etudes-francaises.net/dossiers/ebook.htmand also available in Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29801
and in ManyBooks:
http://manybooks.net/titles/lebertm2980129801-8.html
As a side remark, a friend of mine, Marc Autret, made a beautiful interactive PDF
from a previous ebook, “Technology and Books for All”, as an experiment:
http://marcautret.free.fr/booknology/en/
This was a beautiful adventure during ten years. Now this is time for me to pass the torch to others, and do something else.
With many thanks in advance for posting this information on TeleRead, if you think our work can be interesting for your readers.
Best regards,
Marie
—
Marie Lebert, Ph.D.
researcher & editor
email: marie.lebert AT gmail.com
www: http://www.etudes-francaises.net/
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