1 History
1.1 Bob Brown's The Readies (1930)
1.2 Candidates for the first e-book inventor
1.2.1 Roberto Busa (late 1940s)
1.2.2 Ángela Ruiz Robles (1949)
1.2.3 Doug Engelbart and Andries van Dam (1960s)
1.2.4 Michael S. Hart (1971)
1.3 Early e-book implementations
1.4 E-book formats
1.5 Libraries
1.5.1 Challenges
1.6 Archival storage
1.7 Dedicated hardware readers and mobile reader software
1.8 Timeline
1.8.1 Until 1979
1.8.2 1980-1999
1.8.3 2000s
1.8.4 2010s
2 Formats
3 Comparison to printed books
3.1 Advantages
3.1.1 Spatial benefits
3.1.2 Mechanical and multimedia benefits
3.1.3 Distributive and access benefits
3.2 Digital rights management
4 Production
5 e-Readers
6 E-reader applications
7 Market shares
8 See also
9 References
10 External links