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 slogan reading free la lecture en libert website bookeen.com bookeen is french company dealing with e books and consumer electronics . 1 contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit in 2003 after the failure of cytale the first european company to make an ebook reader two former engineers of cytale laurent picard and micha l 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 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 aaccelerometer 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 launches 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 in 2014 bookeen launches the cybook muse the new 6 inches connected ebook reader 7 and latter en 2014 the cybook ocean an 8 inches connected ebook reader 8 see also edit cybook orizon comparison of e book readers references edit kozlowski michael . the e reader and e paper outlook for 2013 2014 . good e reader . may 22 2013 . bookeen cybook epaper the ebook reading device a b http www.bookeen.com specs ebook cybookgen3.aspx bookeen cybook opus paraded . ubergizmo . cybook ebook readers bookeen . bookeen.com . bookeen launches a new e book store . e reader info . http www.techradar.com reviews pc mac tablets e readers bookeen cybook muse frontlight 1284835 review http www.theregister.co.uk 2015 01 10 reviewer bookeen cybook ocean 8 inch ereader external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to bookeen . official website official books store website interview in french of laurent picard and michael dahan v t e e books formats epub cbr cbz mobipocket kindle pdf plain text reading devices amazon kindle barnes & noble nook bookeen elonex ebook entourage edge hanlin ereader iriver story kobo ereader onyx boox plastic logic reader pocketbook ereader rocket ebook softbook smartphones tablets tolino software adobe acrobat adobe digital editions aldiko blio bluefire reader calibre fbreader google play books ibooks kindle app kitabu lektz lucifox mantano reader okular overdrive media console snapplify stdu viewer sumatra pdf editing abbyy finereader abiword adobe indesign adobe robohelp atlantis word processor booktype calibre calligra author exelearning help & manual helpndoc ibooks author istudio publisher latex libreoffice madcap flare oxygen xml editor pageplus pages quarkxpress scrivener sigil writer2epub sources amazon kindle store baen free library barnes & noble booktrack feedbooks google play hathitrust ibooks store internet archive kobo bookstore project gutenberg sony reader store smashwords wikisource related topics academic journal publishing reform braille e book comparison of e book readers comparison of ios e book reader software e book lending electronic publishing ibooks author conference international digital publishing forum kindle single opds reflowable document semantic publishing retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bookeen & oldid 711995697 categories companies based in pariscompanies established in 2003computer hardware companiesfrench brandshidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa olfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 26 march 2016 at 06 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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