ments
though, but this time in partnership with his publisher.

August 2000 > Barnes & Noble.com opened its eBookStore

Barnes & Noble.com, the website of Barnes & Noble, started its
eBookStore in August 2000, following a partnership with Microsoft in
January 2000 to sell digital books for the Microsoft Reader. This
software being free, Microsoft was billing the publishers and
distributors for the use of its DRM technology, with a commission too
on the sale of each title. Barnes & Noble.com also partnered with Adobe
in August 2000 to sell books for the Acrobat Reader and the Glassbook
Reader (Adobe had just bought Glassbook, with its reader and its
digital bookstore).

September 2000 > The GDT, a bilingual French-English dictionary

The OQLF (Office Quebecois de la Langue Francaise - Quebecois Office of
the French Language) launched in September 2000 the GDT (Grand
Dictionnaire Terminologique), a bilingual French-English dictionary
with 3 million terms related to industry, science and commerce. This
online version was the result of a partnership between the OQLF, author
of the dictionary, and Semantix, a company specializing in linguistic
software. During the first month, the GDT counted 1.3 million hits,
with peaks of 60,000 daily hits, a huge success for this dictionary,
and a technology challenge. The database was then maintained by Convera
Canada, with 3.5 million hits per month in February 2003. A revamped
version of the GDT went online in March 2003. The database has now
being maintained by the OQLF itself, with the addition of Latin as a
third language.

September 2000 > Numilog, a French-language digital bookstore

Numilog was founded in March 2000 by Denis Zwirn near Paris, France, as
a company specializing in the distribution of digital books. Numilog
launched in September 2000 an online bookstore that became the main
French-language aggregator of digital books over the years. In December
2006, the catalog included 35,000 books and audiobooks from 60
publishers, including Gallimard, POL, Le Dilettante, Le Rocher, La
Decouverte, De Vive Voix, Eyrolles or Pearson Education France. Numilog
was bought in May 2008 by Hachette Livre, a leading publishing group.
In January, there were 100,000 ebooks from 100 publishers, with
tailored services for bookstores and libraries.

October 2000 > Distributed Proofreaders

Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to
support the digitization of