Twenty Issues In eBook Creation

"eBook Readers: User Satisfaction and Usability Issues"

Purpose – This article aims to present a comprehensive evaluation of user satisfaction and usability concerns related to five of the leading eBook readers including: the Amazon Kindle; the Apple iPad MB292LL/A; Barnes & Noble’s Nook BNRV100; Borders’ kobo reader N647-BUS-S; and the Sony Digital Reader PRs-950. Design/methodology/approach – This study is based on a survey of 81 information studi...

Ebook Readers in Higher Education

Ebook readers have received a mixed press, with some hailing them as the future of reading and others believing that they will never be popular. The study outlined here aims to understand the attitudes of, and issues of importance to, lecturers in UK academia, with a view to improving the design of ebook readers for education in the future. An evaluation of five portable devices is presented, i...

The Creation of Art: Issues and Perspectives

The Hamburg Metaphor Database project: issues in resource creation

This paper concerns metaphor resource creation. It provides an account of methods used, problems discovered, and insights gained at the Hamburg Metaphor Database project, intended to inform similar resource creation initiatives, as well as future metaphor processing algorithms. After introducing the project, the theoretical underpinnings that motivate the subdivision of represented information ...

Developments and Obstacles in Chinese eBook Market

The purpose of this study was to provide insights into the eBook market in China through case studies on eBook companies and a survey research with individual eBook users. The information from three companies, Beijing Superstar Electric Company, Beijing Founder APABI Technology Limited, and Beijing Sursen Electronic Technology Company Limited, showed that the B2B market has been developed due t...