Rocket eBook explained

Rocket eBook

Developer:	NuvoMedia

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]

External links

"The Tale of Rocketbook – The very first e-reader", Good E-Reader, 2018

Notes and References

http://www.gutenbergnews.org/20110716/ebooks-1998-the-first-ebook-readers/ eBooks: 1998 – The first ebook readers
Web site: The Tale of Rocketbook – The very first e-reader. Kozlowski. Michael. goodereader.com. en-US. 2018-12-14.
David Strom. "E-Books: Still an Unfinished Work". Computerworld, Jul 19, 1999. p. 76.
Hossein Bidgoli. The Internet Encyclopedia. John Wiley and Sons, 2004. p. 790.
Web site: Baer. Drake. The Making Of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, And The Birth Of The Roadster. Business Insider. Business Insider. 7 June 2016.