..., questions about the effects of e‐readers on individual reading practices and the potential applications for library delivery systems have yet to be examined. This study is one of the first to investigate the use of portable e‐book readers. Electronic books User studies Information studies Attitudes...

... This is the biggest survey of its kind ever conducted and it improves one's knowledge of what the academic community thinks of e‐books. Hamid R. Jamali can be contacted at: h.jamali@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Electronic books United Kingdom Libraries Students During...

... staff Electronic books This paper reports on a research project to determine how the academic monograph is perceived and valued as a means of scholarly communication within the arts and humanities (hereafter abbreviated as “A&H”) community. It also explored its possible future...

... not be generalized. However, the survey does not give us a sense of how real end‐users perceive electronic books. The favourite qualities of e‐book were said to be the convenience of being able to access materials from home and the ability to search within the text. The California State University E‐book Task...

... to which electronic books were put, and to obtain an understanding of the most effective library marketing and communication channels. Design/methodology/approach An e‐mail invitation to participate in the survey was distributed to all UCL staff and students (approximately 27,000) in November 2006...

... to being worth 50 per cent of the p‐book market by 2008. Within ten years, the e‐book and p‐book markets were forecast to be about equal in size. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Internet Electronic publishing United Kingdom Electronic books User studies The growth...

... to access information more effectively than would otherwise be possible. Visually disabled people would also have the same opportunity to access knowledge as their sighted colleagues. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Blind people Internet Electronic books Access to information on the World Wide Web...

... for Information Science 47(7), 1996, pp.493-503. 18. Hirashima, T. et al. Context-sensitive filtering for browsing in hypertext. Proceedings Intelligent User Interfaces, 1998, pp.119-126. 19. Kreitzberg, C.B. Designing the electronic book: human psychology and information structures for hypermedia...

...Tony Cawkell Books include novels, dictionaries, telephone books, textbooks, anthologies, instruction manuals, proceedings of meetings and directories. The phrase “electronic books” has been applied to some types of CD‐ROM systems, palm‐top CD players, on‐demand text, electronic document systems...