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Les technologies et le livre pour tous

The author traces a chronological history of digital and publishing technologies across forty years, outlining thirty-eight milestones from early character-encoding and bibliographic standards through the emergence of the internet, the web, universal character sets, portable reading devices, digital formats and archives, online catalogs and marketplaces, collaborative reference projects, open-access and licensing innovations, and large-scale digitization efforts; each entry summarizes technical origins, institutional developments, and consequences for access, multilingualism, metadata, publishing practices, pedagogy and librarianship, highlighting how standards, formats and community projects reshaped creation, distribution and preservation of written knowledge.

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The author traces a chronological history of digital and publishing technologies across forty years, outlining thirty-eight milestones from early character-encoding and bibliographic standards through the emergence of the internet, the web, universal character sets, portable reading devices, digital formats and archives, online catalogs and marketplaces, collaborative reference projects, open-access and licensing innovations, and large-scale digitization efforts; each entry summarizes technical origins, institutional developments, and consequences for access, multilingualism, metadata, publishing practices, pedagogy and librarianship, highlighting how standards, formats and community projects reshaped creation, distribution and preservation of written knowledge.

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Marie Lebert

Marie Lebert is an author and researcher known for her contributions to the field of digital literature and eBooks. Her notable works include "A History of EBooks," which explores the evolution of electronic publishing, and "Booknology: The eBook (1971-2010)," providing insights into the development of eBook technology. Lebert's writings often address the intersection of print media and the internet, as seen in her book "From the Print Media to the Internet." With a focus on multilingualism and digital accessibility, she has significantly contributed to discussions about the future of reading and publishing in the digital age.

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