... documents Multimedia Electronic books The results from the aforementioned analyses reveal students’ learning achievement is related to their behaviour, and females and males show different reactions to the use of the AME. The details are discussed in the subsections below. To identify whether...

...Jae-Young Hwang; Jayhoon Kim; Boram Lee; Jeong Hwan Kim Purpose – This study aims to investigate and analyze the usage patterns of electronic book (e-book) users and their perceptions of e-books from various perspectives. Recently, e-book usage and subscriptions at university libraries in South...

...Maria Pinto; Cristina Pouliot; José Antonio Cordón-García Purpose – This paper aims to show data about Spanish higher-education students’ usage, habits and perceptions regarding reading on new digital media to show the potential future of electronic books (e-books) and reading mobile devices (e...

... at: abdussattarch@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Children Electronic books The use of e-books has been on the rise, as pointed out by the various stakeholders involved with e-books and reading. Shiratuddin et al. (2003) found that e-books were gaining wider...

..., LISTA, Emerald, Science Direct and J‐store. E‐books, electronic books, digital books, e‐book reader, were the keywords used for searching the literature in these databases. The literature is analyzed and reviewed under various broad categories. Most of the literature reviewed is in English. Non‐English...

.... It is also possible to convert electronic book to a printed book by print on demand. Landoni (2003) sees e‐books more as an attempt to overcome the limitations of paper books. E‐book can be best described as a digital object with textual and other content, which arises as a result of integrating...

... and information professionals, then the attitude of information professionals in relation to these features is evaluated. The e‐book features for users include: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Electronic books Academic Libraries Information professionals Librarians Acquisition Iran...

...” and “eyes grow tired” are discussed and in contrast to our study affirmed. Further statements such as “the sensual aspect of reading is lost when reading on a screen” were integrated into our experiments. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Reading Individual behaviour Electronic books...

... Electronic books Digital libraries Following the introduction of the first generation of ebook reading devices in the late 1990s manufacturers have made major advances in terms of the underlying technologies, and have invested in trying to design more effective interfaces for users. Ebook readers...

... Limited 2010 Internet Electronic books Internet marketing Consumer behaviour User studies In recent years, the application of electronic word‐of‐mouth (eWOM) has attracted much attention. An increasing number of individuals and companies are exploiting the dissemination of eWOM...

...Chiun‐Sin Lin; Gwo‐Hshiung Tzeng; Yang‐Chieh Chin; Chiao‐Chen Chang Purpose Few library studies have investigated recommendation classifications for e‐book (electronic book) usage, while none have directly compared what recommendation sources (word‐of‐mouth, advertising, and expert recommendation...

... to gauge the level of presence of packages that distribute electronic books. In evaluating the extent of content available, the data recorded were compared with those derived from another research carried out in 2004. Similarly, an approximate indication of the topic areas with greatest representation...

... audience. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Electronic books Elderly people Blind people New Zealand User studies Internet According to the National Population Projections 2004 (base)‐2051 (NPP 2004) released by Statistics New Zealand. New Zealand's population is growing...

...‐book readers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Electronic books Literature Extensible Markup Language Digital libraries represent the next step in the dissemination of knowledge. Just as some of the oldest humanists worked on the restructuring of manuscripts so as to increase...

... books Group discussion Public libraries Despite an inauspicious market entrance, electronic books (e‐books) are becoming an increasingly viable format due, in large part, to the emergence of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) as practical reading devices. Consequently, public libraries...

...K.T. Anuradha; H.S. Usha Purpose Though electronic books (e‐books) are not new, they are slow in their uptake compared to other types of e‐publications such as journals, newspapers. The possible reasons for this could be because the technology for creating/accessing e‐books (both hardware...

..., which is easy to use and has been used by the libraries with little effort. In developing its digital library (Figure 1), TERI started with the following information resources: Digital libraries Integration Electronic books Electronic journals Search engines Internet technology has...

... VLE, Blackboard was evaluated and studies on this platform were also undertaken (McClelland, 2002). Organizational structures Electronic books Outsourcing Hybrid libraries Higher education Liverpool John Moores University (JMU) is the fourth largest university in the UK with 22,000...

... --> Books Electronic publishing Electronic books Electronic books, or “e‐books” as they are now popularly known, have become an important mechanism for disseminating data, information and knowledge in electronic form. E‐books can be published in a variety of ways – on the internet, on floppy disks...

... Asian Forum for Infrastructure Regulation (SAFIR), and Environmental Information System (ENVIS). Apart from these there is a separate geographic information system (GIS) in TERI. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Internet Digital libraries Virtual organizations Electronic books...