| Industry | eBooks Consumer electronics |
|---|---|
| Founder | Laurent Picard Michael Dahan |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Laurent Picard Co-founder, Michael Dahan Co-founder |
| Products | Cybook Gen1 Cybook Gen3 Cybook Opus Cybook Orizon Cybook Odyssey Cybook Muse Cybook Ocean |
| Website | bookeen.com |
Bookeen is a French company dealing with e-books and consumer electronics. [1]
In 2003 after the failure of Cytale (the first European company to make an ebook reader) two former engineers of Cytale, Laurent Picard and Michaël Dahan, bought the intellectual property of the Cytale reading device, the Cybook Gen1. [2] They founded the company, Bookeen, to produce dedicated ebook reading devices. Their first product was the Cybook Gen1.
The Cybook Gen1 was Bookeen's only product until 2006/2007, when they began exploring E-ink screens. At the time, E-Ink screens were a new technology and claimed to have a near paper-like appearance that did not cause eyestrain. In late 2007 Bookeen began selling the Cybook Gen3, their first eBook reader to use an E-Ink screen.
At the end of 2008, Bookeen started to claim future support for the ePub eBook format. The current firmware supporting it for all models; [3] however, this firmware can not support the older Mobipocket format. Another firmware with support for Mobipocket is still made available so the user can select the desired format. [3] The Swedish Internet Book Store AdLibris initiated a cooperation with Bokeen, and started 2010 to sell the "läsplatta" (Swedish for ebook reader) named Letto an exact copy of Bookeen, except with Swedish menus and Swedish dictionary. When the frontline model of Bookeen was introduced 2014, the Swedish twin version was also manufactured and sold by AdLibirs in the Scandinavian market. In 2009 they also announced a new product the Cybook Opus [4] a smaller version of the Cybook Gen3 but with some improvements: improved shape, accelerometer, 1 GB of user memory, and a 400Mhz CPU.
June 2010 Bookeen published a much improved firmware for Gen3 and Opus devices. [5]
In August 2011, Bookeen launched its own e-book store called BookeenStore.com with ePub and PDF format books, and a selection of free e-books with no DRM. [6] (Note: this site now has DRM. [7] )
In 2014, Bookeen launched the Cybook Muse, the new 6 inches connected ebook reader [8] and later in 2014, the Cybook Ocean, an 8 inches connected ebook reader. [9]
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