ilian, Chinese,
English, French, German, Hindu, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian,
Mongolian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Thai). The UNDL Foundation
(UNDL: Universal Networking Digital Language) was founded in January
2001 to develop and promote the UNL project.

January 2001 > The Cybook, a European ebook reader

Developed by Cytale, a company created by Olivier Pujol, the first
Cybook (21 x 16 cm, 1 kilo) was available in January 2001. Its memory
- 32 M of SDRAM and 16 M of flash memory - could store 15.000 pages, or
30 books of 500 pages. But sales were not as good as planned, and
Cytale ended in July 2002. The Cybook project was taken over by the
company Bookeen, created in 2003 by Michael Dahan and Laurent Picard,
who previously worked at Cytale. The Cybook second generation was
available in June 2004. Bookeen launched the Cybook Gen3 in July 2007,
with a screen using the E Ink technology.

January 2001 > The Acrobat eBook Reader

In January 2001, Adobe launched the Acrobat eBook Reader (free) and the
Adobe Content Server (for a fee). The Acrobat eBook Reader was used to
read PDF files of copyrighted books, while adding notes and bookmarks,
getting the book covers in a personal library, and browsing a
dictionary. The Adobe Content Server was intended for publishers and
distributors for the packaging, protection, distribution and sale of
copyrighted books in PDF format, while managing their access with DRM
(Digital Rights Management), according to instructions given by the
copyright holder, for example allowing or not the printing and loan of
ebooks.

February 2001 > A quote from Russon Wooldridge

Russon Wooldridge is a professor at the Department of French Studies in
the University of Toronto, Canada, and the founder of the Net des
Etudes Francaises (Net of French Studies). He wrote in February 2001:
"My research, conducted once in an ivory tower, is now almost
exclusively done through local or remote collaborations. (...) All my
teaching makes the most of internet resources (web and email): the two
common places for a course are the classroom and the website of the
course, where I put all course materials. I have published all my
research data of the last 20 years on the web (re-edition of books,
articles, texts of old dictionaries as interactive databases, treaties
from the 16th century, etc.). I publish proceedings of symposiums, I
publish a journal, I collaborate with French colleagues by publ