Papers in this group
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What is the continued growth capacity of Fiction? • When will the other genres get moving? • What roles does technology really play in adoption?
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The report looks closely at library eBook purchasing and deployment policies and includes data on overall spending, spending on particular products, the break down of spending between aggregators and individual publishers among thousands of other…
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This article proposes a model of e-books for schools based on a graph in which nodes represent individual subjects of a teaching program to a the relatively low granularity, which facilitates their aggregation and re-usability, and edges represent…
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The OITP E-book Task Force is responding to FAQs sent to us by public librarians. (Future FAQs will focus on questions from the school library community). We anticipate that additional questions will be added over time.
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The last thing Catherine MacDonald did before going to bed the night of Dec. 30 was to ask her husband to remind her to start a Facebook page the next morning about something she just seen on her Kindle e-reader: Amazon.com’s decision to allow…
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Since Internet became in the last years the biggest source of information, the book concept has been dramatically redefined, especially in terms of separating of its content and the related support. Practically, when using the electronic media, a…
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With the introduction of library e-books in 1999, the once-straightforward process of buying books took on many complexities. This chapter of The No Shelf Required Guide to E-book Purchasing offers an overview of these challenges and the advantages…
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The sociotechnical regime of the print-on-paper prevails as the main medium of textual communication despite concerns on its environmental implications. Radical innovation in the form of application of generic technologies is required to address…
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Los libros electrónicos han renovado el concepto tradicional de libro, favoreciendo la socialización de la lectura, la participación del usuario y la ruptura de la cadena tradicional de la edición. Las empresas editoriales se han ido adaptando al…
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This paper surveys a range of proposed orphan works solutions. The goal is to acquaint the reader with the wide variety of solution types, and to identify the positive and negative aspects of each. The paper discusses four general categories of…
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Web 2.0 technologies provide an opportunity to transform learning into a social experience: social learning can directly bene t from user-generated content analysis. The e-book device is an object central to the learning process; it becomes an ideal…
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New technologies create great opportunities as well as new challenges when libraries build their virtual collections. As e-book readers and other portable devices grow in popularity, collections can no longer be evaluated purely on the basis of…
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This paper focuses on changing reading characteristics and presents a study among a group of expert readers. Considering technological bases of reading and applying corporeal and material perspectives, this study examines manners in which proficient…
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Despite the widespread use of Web 2.0 techniques in our entire surrounding environment, which tend to make it more social, more dynamic and driven by users, some domains have not really changed yet. This is the case for (e-)books which reading…
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Libros electrónicos: Perspectivas del bibliotecario en los primeros 5 años. Con motivo del 5 º aniversario del lanzamiento de la colección de libros electrónicos de Springer, la editorial consuló a cinco de sus principales socios en los sectores…
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La encuesta se realizó entre editores, distribuidores, libreros e invitados especiales (funcionarios de gobierno, prestadores de servicios) que participaron de las jornadas de profesionales de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires 2010.…
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Despite the young child’s increasing access to electronic books and the evidence indicating it’s effectiveness for promoting emergent literacy, research among young children at risk for learning disabilities is only just beginning. Motivated by this…