August 20, 2013
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Gene Golovchinsky 1965-2013

Shocking and heartbreaking news this morning of the death of Gene Golovchinsky, hypertext pioneer and one of the engineers most responsible for the success of the modern eBook. Golovchinsky pioneered work on note-making on tablets in an era when tablets were widely dismissed, where eBooks seemed a distant dream.