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<h2 id="nuvomedia">NuvoMedia</h2>
<p>On April 15, 1997, <a href="/facts/Martin_Eberhard/fofq4eLk">Martin Eberhard</a> and <a href="/facts/Marc_Tarpenning/LJ5XoJuU">Marc Tarpenning</a> founded NuvoMedia to make a product that could benefit from improving battery size and settled on designing an electronic book reader; the resulting Rocket eBook e-reader sold 20,000 units in 1999.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-tale-of-rocketbook-the-very-first-e-reader">"The Tale of Rocketbook – The very first e-reader"</a>, Good E-Reader, 2018</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>eBooks: 1998 – The first ebook readers. Retrieved 5 February 2015. <a href="http://www.gutenbergnews.org/20110716/ebooks-1998-the-first-ebook-readers/" target="_blank">http://www.gutenbergnews.org/20110716/ebooks-1998-the-first-ebook-readers/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Kozlowski, Michael (2 December 2018). "The Tale of Rocketbook – The very first e-reader". goodereader.com. Retrieved 2018-12-14. <a href="https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-tale-of-rocketbook-the-very-first-e-reader" target="_blank">https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-tale-of-rocketbook-the-very-first-e-reader</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>David Strom. "E-Books: Still an Unfinished Work". Computerworld, Jul 19, 1999. p. 76. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r6fVZ4hOrzcC&pg=PA76" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=r6fVZ4hOrzcC&pg=PA76</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Hossein Bidgoli. The Internet Encyclopedia. John Wiley and Sons, 2004. p. 790. ISBN 978-0-471-22202-6 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=96ZSgSIdbH4C&pg=PA790" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=96ZSgSIdbH4C&pg=PA790</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Hossein Bidgoli. The Internet Encyclopedia. John Wiley and Sons, 2004. p. 790. ISBN 978-0-471-22202-6 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=96ZSgSIdbH4C&pg=PA790" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=96ZSgSIdbH4C&pg=PA790</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Baer, Drake. "The Making Of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, And The Birth Of The Roadster". Business Insider. Retrieved 7 June 2016. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10" target="_blank">http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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