We were, from 1999 till 2002, two of the main actors of the adventure of Cytale SA, a french company dedicated to eBooks.

Alain Schmidt acted as a bookstore consultant. Bookseller, responsible for editing collections, he is also specialist in cognitive and comportemental therapies; as such, he advices to big firms.

Frédéric Desmond was the Director of Software Development of the company. As a specialist in the problematics of edition, layout and page-setting of numerical documents, he is a joint author of a patent of ‘formatting’ and presentation. Initiator of the project ‘Hybook’, he recently developed new techniques of real-time layout, as well as of navigation on Internet in big characters.