The First eBook Cost up to $100 Million to Make!

The U.S. Declaration of Independence from a version of the 1823 William Stone facsimile via Wikipedia and in the Public Domain.

Another cool piece of digital history is the story of the first eBook. They are everywhere now, but before 1971, none existed. We only had physical and audiobooks at that time. The eBook began when a student at the University of Illinois, Michael Hart, received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of time on … Read more