...Jung‐Yu Lai; Chih‐Yen Chang Purpose Due to the rapid pace of development and innovation in information technology, the dedicated electronic book (e‐book) reader has become a new trend in reading. However, at present there is only a limited understanding of what factors drive user attitudes...

...; format of e‐books; subject coverage of vendors' collections (arts and humanities, business, law, medicine, science and engineering, and social sciences); methods of purchasing access rights for the libraries; and provision of MARC records. The birth of the electronic book has provided...

... --> Electronic books This relatively slim book covers the steps involved in writing and self‐publishing an electronic book (e‐book) on the Web. The information is presented in two parts: writing and compiling the book, and publishing and marketing it. Oghojafor begins by stating that e‐books have...

... --> Electronic books E‐book technology is now a marvellous opportunity for anyone to become a self‐published e‐book author. Publishing or distributing e‐books is cost effective and is rapdily gaining in popularlty. More educational information can now be published by educators and easily distributed...

... electronic publishing as, “the issuing of books and other material in machine‐readable form rather than on paper”; it does not provide an authoritative definition of the term e‐book (electronic book). The term e‐book broadly describes a text or monograph made available in an electronic format (Ormes, 2000...

...Philip Calvert Edited by Bill   Cope and Dean   Mason . Markets for Electronic Books: Emerging Markets for Books, from Creator to Consumer . Altona, VIC : Common Ground, RMIT University   2002 . 251 pp. , ISBN: 1863350942   price not reported soft C‐2‐C Project Book 3.2...

... --> Electronic books Copyright law Topics covered in this very useful little book include the nature of “rights” to published works, and who has the rights. To those who have not examined copyright in detail, the list provided by Laidler is surprisingly long. Another chapter by Laidler on digital rights...

... --> Electronic books Supply chain management This book in the C‐2‐C Series is of considerable interest to librarians and information managers. The central point is that as book production changes from a linear sequence of operations to an organic interchange between several players, the role of book...

...M. Landoni; R. Wilson; F. Gibb This paper starts by reporting the results of two studies into electronic book production, the Visual Book and the WEB Book. The Visual Book study (Landoni, 1997) explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor for the production of more effective...