nÃo hà / O sÃculo XXI chegou sob o grande impacto da revoluÃÃo dos meios de comunicaÃÃo e das novas tecnologias eletrÃnicas e digitais da informaÃÃo, que ocasionou a introduÃÃo de diferentes suportes, sobretudo no meio acadÃmico, que facilitaram a produÃÃo e o acesso à informaÃÃo. A partir de 2009, a Universidade Federal do Cearà passou a adquirir tÃtulos de livros eletrÃnicos como exigÃncia de inserÃÃo nesse novo modelo de ensino e prÃticas de pesquisas. Com isso, a sua Biblioteca UniversitÃria adquiriu para o seu acervo uma coleÃÃo de livros eletrÃnicos nas mais variadas Ãreas do conhecimento, disponÃvel a toda comunidade universitÃria, como fonte alternativa de informaÃÃo para a pesquisa, ensino e extensÃo. Observando-se esse fato e sabendo-se da necessidade de se avaliar produtos e serviÃos de bibliotecas, esta pesquisa propÃe o seguinte problema: Quais fatores sÃo considerados determinantes para o uso dos livros eletrÃnicos comprados e disponibilizados no sistema de bibliotecas da UFC, por alunos e professores dos programas de pÃs-graduaÃÃo dessa instituiÃÃo, contemplados com esse tipo de acervo? A pesquisa optou por uma metodologia quanti-qualitativa, atravÃs de questionÃrios eletrÃnicos elaborados e aplicados por meio da ferramenta google docs, por buscar traduzir em nÃmeros, as respostas e informaÃÃes, bem como a fala dos participantes, e organizÃ-las de modo a facilitar anÃlise e proposiÃÃo dos conhecimentos novos. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratÃria, com uma amostragem nÃo probabilÃstica, pois, devido à estratÃgia de coleta de dados, torna-se inviÃvel uma amostra definitiva. O mÃtodo de anÃlise dos dados à o funcionalista, realizado por meio de estudo de casos selecionados a partir da pertinÃncia mais prÃxima com a pesquisa. Para a tabulaÃÃo dos dados, utilizou-se o programa Microsoft Excel. Como resultado, observou-se que os professores demonstraram ter mais conhecimento da existÃncia do acervo de livros eletrÃnicos comprados e disponibilizados pela UFC que os estudantes. Em contrapartida, os estudantes demonstraram conhecer mais as estratÃgias de acesso que os professores. Quanto ao quesito importÃncia e satisfaÃÃo com esse tipo de acervo, os estudantes demonstraram melhor relaÃÃo com o acervo eletrÃnico que os professores. Entretanto, os estudantes que nÃo tÃm conhecimento desse acervo, em sua maioria, o consideram muito importante. Jà professores que desconhecem este tipo de acervo o consideram mais importante do que professores que conhecem. Quanto ao grau de satisfaÃÃo, professores demonstraram estar mais satisfeitos que os estudantes com esse tipo de acervo. Ficou evidente que os fatores que mais contribuÃram para o uso dessa nova mÃdia foram: a gratuidade pelo portal da UFC; a ampla disponibilidade e a praticidade. Os fatores que mais contribuÃram para a nÃo utilizaÃÃo desse recurso sÃo: falta de motivaÃÃo; nÃo constarem nas bibliografias; falta de uma divulgaÃÃo mais expressiva; necessidade de uma ferramenta para o acesso e, por Ãltimo, a resistÃncia à mudanÃas; o pÃblico para nÃo querer trocar o prazer de folhear um livro impresso pela rigidez de um eletrÃnico. / The twenty-first century came under the great impact of the media revolution and the new electronic and digital information technologies, which led to the introduction of different means of communication, especially in academia, which facilitated the production of and access to information. Since 2009, the Federal University of Cearà had the policy to purchase eBook titles as need to insert academia into this new model of teaching and research practices. Thus, its main University Library has acquired a collection of electronics books on various fields, available to all university community, as an alternative source of information for research, teaching and community services. Observing this fact and knowing the need to evaluate products and services for libraries, this research proposes the following problem: What factors are considered decisive for the use of electronic books, available on the UFCÂs library system for graduate students and Professors in all graduate programs? The research methodology works with quantitative and qualitative data, collected through electronic questionnaires, developed and applied through google docs tool. This will allow us to translate the answers into numbers and information, in order to organize them and to facilitate the analysis and suggestions for this new knowledge. This is an exploratory survey with a random sample, with no final conclusive arguments. The method of data analysis is the functionalist, accomplished through study of selected cases showing relevance to the research. To tabulate the data, we used the Microsoft Excel program. As a result, it was observed that teachers have demonstrated more knowledge on the existence of the collection of electronic books purchased and available by UFC than the students. In contrast, students demonstrated knowing more strategies of access than the teachers. As to the importance and satisfaction with this type of collection, students have a better knowledge on the electronic library than teachers. Even being unaware of this collection, students consider it very important. Teachers who donÂt know the existence of this type of collection consider it more important than teachers who know it. To the degree of satisfaction, teachers demonstrated to be more satisfied than the students with the eBook collection. It was evident that the factors that contributed to the use of eBooks were: its gratuity at UFC portal, its wide availability and practicality. The factors that contributed to the failure of the use of this feature are: lack of motivation, information not included in the basic bibliographies, lack of a more significant disclosure, need for a tool to access it, and finally, resistance to change, once the public not want to change the pleasure of leafing a printed book to a virtual one.

Com o propósito de contribuir com dados empíricos para as discussões sobre o livro eletrônico e o futuro do livro, a pesquisa buscou compreender e analisar as formas pelas quais estudantes que ingressaram na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) em 2011 se apropriaram dos conteúdos da lista de leituras obrigatórias do vestibular, composta por 12 títulos. Partiu-se do modelo da Ordem dos Livros de Roger Chartier (1998), aplicando-se o con-ceito das listas de vestibular como forma canônica desenvolvido por Ana Cláudia Fidélis (2008). O planejamento metodológico da dissertação seguiu o modelo de Pesquisa em Comuni-cação de Maria Immacolata Vasallo de Lopes (2003). A amostra foi escolhida levando em conta dados quantitativos preexistentes da pesquisa Retratos da Leitura no Brasil (2008). A observa-ção envolveu 263 estudantes de primeiro ano de nove cursos da UFRGS, um de cada Grande Área da Capes, que responderam a um questionário fechado autoaplicado. O formulário incluía questões sobre a quantidade de livros recomendados lidos na íntegra ou parcialmente e os su-portes adotados, além de quantidades de downloads e leituras eletrônicas. Foram empregadas categorias descritivas elaboradas a partir de autores do referencial teórico como John B. Thomp-son (2008), Ted Striphas (2011) e José Afonso Furtado (2006). A análise dos dados quantitati-vos originados pelo levantamento foi realizada de forma qualitativa. Também foi realizada em menor escala triangulação empregando técnicas qualitativas, mesclando-se observação direta e entrevistas telefônicas. A análise dos resultados apontou que houve predominância da leitura em livro impresso, suporte empregado por 90% dos respondentes. O livro eletrônico foi consultado ou lido por pouco mais de 30% dos candidatos pesquisados. Este grupo minoritário dividia-se em dois subconjuntos principais: os que utilizaram o meio digital por se constituir em uma for-ma facilitada de acesso aos títulos e os que empregaram o suporte eletrônico como apoio ao estudo, conjugado com meios impressos. Também se observou que a distribuição em domínio público teve a tendência de determinar os títulos mais lidos eletronicamente. A observação a-pontou ainda grande variedade de configurações de relacionamento com os diferentes suportes de leitura, tanto em torno de perfis individuais quanto por área temática dos cursos. Colateral-mente, observou-se que candidatos dos cursos mais disputados tiveram a tendência de ler mais títulos da lista recomendada, com prevalência da forma impressa. / With the purpose of contributing with empirical data in the discussions about the elec-tronic book and the future of the book, this research sought to understand and analyze the ways in which students who joined the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 2011 took hold of the contents of the admission exam‟s 12 titles mandatory reading list. The starting conceptual model was Roger Chartier‟s The Order of Books (1998), being applied the concept of admission exam‟s lists as canonical form developed by Ana Cláudia Fidélis (2008). The Dissertation‟s methodological planning followed the model of Research in Communication from Maria Imma-colata Vasallo de Lopes (2003). The sample corpus was chosen taking into account quantitative data from pre-existing reading survey Portraits of Reading in Brazil (2008). The observation included 263 first year students from nine courses of the University, one from each major area of Capes. They responded to a self applied closed questionnaire. The form included questions about the amount of mandatory books read in full or in part, as well as the reading apparatus adopted. Downloads quantities and number of titles read in electronic form were also investi-gated. Descriptive categories came from theoretical reference authors such as John b. Thompson (2008), Ted Striphas (2011) and José Afonso Furtado (2006). The analysis of quantitative data from the survey was conducted by qualitative analysis. In lesser extent the empirical work em-ployed qualitative techniques with triangulation intent, merging telephone interviews and direct observation. The analysis of the results pointed out that there was a predominance of reading on printed book, support chosen by 90% of the respondents. The electronic book was consulted or read by just over 30% of candidates surveyed. This minority group was divided into two main subsets: those who sought the digital medium as an easier access to the mandatory titles and those that employed electronic medium as support to study in conjunction with printed media. It was also noted that the public domain distribution had a tendency to determine the titles more read in electronic form. It was observed, still, that there was a wide variety of reading settings, both around individual profiles and by subject area. Collaterally, it was noted that candidates of more competitive courses had the tendency to read more recommended list titles, with preva-lence of the printed form.

A pesquisa tem como objetivo geral verificar como as revistas brasilei-ras Superinteressante, piauí, Nova Escola, Info Exame e Você S/A retratam os livros digi-tais, tendo em vista aspectos característicos dos e-books e valores do campo jornalístico. Os títulos selecionados compreendem cinco segmentos temáticos ligados ao universo do livro digital e são as publicações mensais com maior circulação no país em 2013. Os pro-cedimentos metodológicos adotados abrangeram as pesquisas bibliográfica e documental, bem com a análise de conteúdo. Através da leitura das 58 revistas que compuseram o corpus da pesquisa (a totalidade das publicações dos títulos em 2013), encontramos 34 textos que forneciam informações sobre os livros digitais. Após a análise quantitativa e qualitativa dos textos, apontamos os principais resultados: 1) É restrita a participação das revistas segmentadas na divulgação de informações a respeito dos livros digitais. 2) As revistas não estão preocupadas em educar/formar o leitor para a apropriação do livro digital. 3) O assunto livro digital não é merecedor de destaque nas revistas onde aparece. 4) Os textos apontam a reconfiguração dos papéis dos atores da cadeia do livro. / The research has as a main purpose to verify how Brazilian magazines as Superinter-essante, piauí, Nova Escola, Info Exame e Você S/A describe e-books, considering its char-acteristic features and its values on the journalistic field. The methodological procedures used were bibliographic and documentary research as well as content analysis. We re-viewed 58 magazines that constitute the research corpus (the entire publications of 2013) and found 34 texts that contained information about e-books. After a quantitative and qual-itative analysis of these texts we point out five main results: 1) The targeted magazines influence on the release of information about e-books is restricted; 2) The magazines have no interest in educating/encouraging the reader on how to acquire an e-book; 3) The sub-ject “e-book” is not worthy of a highlighted piece in the journal where it’s exposed; 4) The texts underline a reconfiguration of the actor’s role in the book chain.

The thesis "Analysis of the current situation on the market of electronic books (eBook) in the Czech Republic", deals with topics and issues of e-books and the current market situation in the Czech Republic. One of its objectives is to introduce readers to the world of e-books, show a brief history and development of books and e-books as a medium, getting to know what's happening in the U.S., and particularly on the Czech market. For this thesis, it was developed an online questionnaire "Electronic books in the CR", which serves as a data source for the practical part. The practical part is to evaluate the situation on the market, attitude of respondents to reading, e-books, e-readers, and also use the data obtained for the selection of the best e-reader with a multicriteria method of choice.

The practical part of my thesis - Interactive Electronic Book for Children – is the book titled The Story of a tree. The application contains the author's text, which tells the story about the old tree that lives its own life and also comes alive all around him. The text is completed by illustrations that are created by combining techniques (line drawing, watercolor, photography) and digitally edited. Some illustrations are animated, others require the interaction of the reader, to set in motion, a sound, etc. Each page contains sound or music.

Diploma thesis The Book in the Electronic Age deals with print and electronic book. Theory of convergence has been described at the first theoretical part. According to historical evidence, convergence supposed, media be not ejected each other, but their content has just to be changed. Another mentioned theory is remediation. It consists in way which new medium releases. New medium determines itself by borrowing characters of old medium and this content is being transform in terms what the new one needs. The chapter pointing on a strong tradition and an influence of book is concerned in letter print like power instrument. The next part describes print and electronic environment and also includes their differences not only from the perspective of user. History and princip of hypertext is outlined and there has been mentioned hypertext's potential in e-books as well. The newest way of reading electronic books are mentioned there. The theme of failure of e-book is also involved. The question about future of book appears in whole thesis.

Disertacijoje tiriama skaitmeninės knygos kokybė, išreikšta tam tikrais išskirtais kokybės kriterijais, vertinimo matais, kurių buvimas arba nebuvimas nulemia objekto kokybę. Darbe laikomasi nuomonės, kad skaitmeninei knygai taikomi kokybės kriterijai turi būti maksimaliai pritaikyti vartotojui, todėl objektas nagrinėjamas žvelgiant iš vartotojo pozicijos, atsižvelgiant į jo lūkesčius ir vertinimus. Skaitmeninės knygos skaitymo procesas traktuojamas kaip vartotojo noras gauti informacijos bei ją suvokti. Darbo tikslas – diferencijuojant kriterijus pagal jų svarbumą vartotojams, sukonstruoti skaitmeninių knygų kokybės vertinimo instrumentą (kokybinių kriterijų rinkinį), kuris atskleistų skaitmeninės knygos specifiką bei raiškos ypatybes. Remiantis išanalizuota skaitmeninės knygos samprata, jos galimybėmis, skaitytojų poreikių, patirties ir pageidavimų analize, nustatoma, kokie kokybiniai knygos skaitymo aspektai turi daugiausia įtakos vertinant skaitmeninės knygos kokybę. Žengiamas kokybiškai naujas žingsnis – pirmą kartą skaitmeninės knygos kokybės tyrimuose, pritaikant Herzbergo motyvacijos-higienos teoriją, rinkinio sudedamosios dalys (kokybės kriterijai) yra diferencijuojamos ir reitinguojamos dviem aspektais. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidžia ir novatorišką visuminį vartotojams reikšmingiausių skaitmeninės knygos elementų vaizdą. Sukonstruotas skaitmeninės knygos kokybės įvertinimo instrumentas gali būti taikomas tiek tolimesniuose moksliniuose skaitmeninės knygos tyrimuose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The object of research is the quality of the digital book conveyed in terms of quality criteria. These are some distinguished features, assessment measures whose presence or absence determines the quality of the object. The object is analysed from the user’s perspective in consideration of his/her expectations and assessments. The research takes the approach that the quality criteria attributable to the digital book should be tailored to the needs of the user to a maximum level. By differentiating the criteria according to their importance to the users, this research aims at building up the quality assessment instrument for digital books that would reveal the specifics and expressive characteristics of the digital book. Referring to the explored concept of the digital book and its potential, the analysis into the needs, experience and wishes of readers, it is going to be established as to which qualitative book reading factors have the biggest impact on the quality assessment of the digital book. A new qualitative step is taken as it is for the first time in digital book quality research, by using Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory, the components of the toolbox (quality criteria) are differentiated and rated under two aspects. The results of the research reveal the overall innovative picture of elements of the digital book that are most important to users. The created digital book quality assessment instrument can be used both in further scientific digital book research... [to full text]

The object of research is the quality of the digital book conveyed in terms of quality criteria. These are some distinguished features, assessment measures whose presence or absence determines the quality of the object. The object is analysed from the user’s perspective in consideration of his/her expectations and assessments. The research takes the approach that the quality criteria attributable to the digital book should be tailored to the needs of the user to a maximum level. By differentiating the criteria according to their importance to the users, this research aims at building up the quality assessment instrument for digital books that would reveal the specifics and expressive characteristics of the digital book. Referring to the explored concept of the digital book and its potential, the analysis into the needs, experience and wishes of readers, it is going to be established as to which qualitative book reading factors have the biggest impact on the quality assessment of the digital book. A new qualitative step is taken as it is for the first time in digital book quality research, by using Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory, the components of the toolbox (quality criteria) are differentiated and rated under two aspects. The results of the research reveal the overall innovative picture of elements of the digital book that are most important to users. The created digital book quality assessment instrument can be used both in further scientific digital book research... [to full text] / Disertacijoje tiriama skaitmeninės knygos kokybė, išreikšta tam tikrais išskirtais kokybės kriterijais, vertinimo matais, kurių buvimas arba nebuvimas nulemia objekto kokybę. Darbe laikomasi nuomonės, kad skaitmeninei knygai taikomi kokybės kriterijai turi būti maksimaliai pritaikyti vartotojui, todėl objektas nagrinėjamas žvelgiant iš vartotojo pozicijos, atsižvelgiant į jo lūkesčius ir vertinimus. Skaitmeninės knygos skaitymo procesas traktuojamas kaip vartotojo noras gauti informacijos bei ją suvokti. Darbo tikslas – diferencijuojant kriterijus pagal jų svarbumą vartotojams, sukonstruoti skaitmeninių knygų kokybės vertinimo instrumentą (kokybinių kriterijų rinkinį), kuris atskleistų skaitmeninės knygos specifiką bei raiškos ypatybes. Remiantis išanalizuota skaitmeninės knygos samprata, jos galimybėmis, skaitytojų poreikių, patirties ir pageidavimų analize, nustatoma, kokie kokybiniai knygos skaitymo aspektai turi daugiausia įtakos vertinant skaitmeninės knygos kokybę. Žengiamas kokybiškai naujas žingsnis – pirmą kartą skaitmeninės knygos kokybės tyrimuose, pritaikant Herzbergo motyvacijos-higienos teoriją, rinkinio sudedamosios dalys (kokybės kriterijai) yra diferencijuojamos ir reitinguojamos dviem aspektais. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidžia ir novatorišką visuminį vartotojams reikšmingiausių skaitmeninės knygos elementų vaizdą. Sukonstruotas skaitmeninės knygos kokybės įvertinimo instrumentas gali būti taikomas tiek tolimesniuose moksliniuose skaitmeninės knygos tyrimuose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

This thesis deals with problems associated with the distribution of the electronic books. Those problems are mainly caused by the use of the digital rights management technologies and techniques. In the thesis those technologies and techniques are further explored as there are several stakeholder groups identified who are affected by them. It also explores ethical aspects of using those technologies and techniques and those aspects are then used as one of the starting points of the design of an alternative approach to the digital rights management. This approach is the primary objective of this thesis.

The goal of this thesis is to clarify the status of books in the current Czech culture using scientific methods. Since there are many possible ways to achieve this widely defined goal, it was necessary to choose certain methods (and therefore an overall angle of the examination). Two specific methods were selected - a questionnaire for members of Generation Y and media analysis of culture sections of the Czech daily newspapers, Mladá fronta DNES and Právo during the months of June and December of 2017. Theoretical background, description of the methods and explanation of all the key terms are part of the theoretical section. The objective of the questionnaire is to map reading preferences and habits of young readers. The questions are focused on qualitative and also quantitative aspects of book reading. The overarching objective of the media analysis is to provide an accurate image the media paint about books. This will be achieved by thorough examination of all the articles that mention them. Just like with the questionnaire, qualitative and quantitative aspects will be tracked.