Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

A través de la historia del libro se exploran sus distintos soportes hasta centrarnos en el eReader como principal elemento a estudiar en un entorno donde el eBook cuenta con aceptación en el público, a diferencia del dispositivo, el cual es uno de los menos utilizados para llevar a cabo la lectura. El caso de estudio se centra en evaluar la usabilidad del eReader para identificar puntos de mejora apegados al tema y probar su funcionamiento en un trabajo de campo que engloba sujetos de diferentes países de habla hispana con el objetivo de proponer un diseño de interfaz.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-18T12:52:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao-EdilsonThialisonSilvaReis.pdf: 5147236 bytes, checksum: 1df6d042596bf276dd31d5fa35b7c204 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-03 / With the increasing amount of websites for digital literary Reading, has shown a clear need for a study focused in these tools. The research subject is the Portal Biblon , social network addressed to children users, which has to promote reading through literary narratives, adding users around the literary text. The research analyzes E-books´ graphic interfaces available on this website under the editorial design guidelines emphasized on the Child user´s experience. Based on interaction and editorial design, analyzes the main features of an E-book for children users. Applying the research methodology with qualitative approaching, it was noted that the Editorial Design´s elements work as inspirational parameters for reading and when an E-book is not designed taking into account the need of its target audience, it works as an opposite element of its function, that is, instead of encouraging the reading, causes frustration and a lack of interest in it. / Com o aumento da quantidade de portais para leitura literária digital, torna-se evidente a necessidade de estudos voltados para essas ferramentas. O objeto utilizado na pesquisa é o Portal Biblon, rede social com foco voltado para o usuário infantil, que tem como objetivo promover a leitura através de narrativas literárias, agregando utilizadores em torno do texto literário. A pesquisa faz análise da interface dos ebooks disponíveis no portal sob as diretrizes do Design Editorial e com ênfase na experiência do usuário infantil. Com base no Design de Interação e Design Editorial analisa as principais características de um ebook infantil. Usando a metodologia de pesquisa aplicada com abordagem qualitativa, observou-se que os elementos do Design Editorial servem de parâmetros motivadores para a leitura, e quando um ebook não é projetado, levando em consideração as necessidades do seu público, o mesmo funciona como elemento contrário da sua função, ou seja, em vez de incentivar a leitura, causa frustração e desinteresse pela mesma.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is the world’s largest online retailer (Jopson, 1). The company’s website launched in the United States in 1994 by Jeffrey Bezos as an online bookstore, later diversified to offer a broad line of products in multiple warehouses across the US. With successful expansion, Amazon.com is now available worldwide in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil and China (SECdatabase, 50). The company directly sells or acts as a third – party to deliver the products to customers. As of the first quarter in 2011, Amazon has approximately 137 million active customers worldwide (Szkutak, 1). In 2007, CEO Jeff Bezos lead Amazon in a new direction by introducing the eReaderKindle, offering a new platform for digital books and other e-print media. The Kindle allows users to read, shop for, download and browse eBooks, newspaper, magazines, blogs and websites using Wi-Fi. The 3G Kindle uses Sprint’s 3G cellular services to allow immediate customer purchase and download from the Amazon Kindle store, with no connectivity charges. The base model e-ink Kindle features a 6” screen, while the Kindle DX has a 10” screen and the newly introduced Kindle Fire has 7” multi-touch colored screen. The Kindle is designed for people who favor a small, compact electronic device to carry in their pockets or bags. The purpose of this paper is to detail the development, technology, opportunities as well as challenges associated with Amazon Kindle in relate to the publishing industry. The paper also discusses whether the 6” eReader device will change reading habits and its impact on hardcopy publishing businesses worldwide.

We present recommendations for the design of flexible electronic book readers, based on an empirical evaluation of form factors and input techniques in a single page navigation task. Capacitive touch, pressure, and bend sensors are compared on rigid and flexible devices using a prototype electronic book reader. Results from the evaluation of input techniques suggest flexible designs do not perform significantly worse than rigid designs, and bend gestures perform as well as button presses in flexible form factors. Capacitive touch sensors may have decreased performance on flexible devices. We conclude by presenting recommendations for the design of future flexible e-book readers. / Thesis (Master, Computing) -- Queen's University, 2010-09-30 11:49:39.205

The purpose of this thesis is to survey the successfulness of electronic book sale in the Czech environment. The thesis is intended to provide an evaluation of the present situation, identify the main issues regarding e-book market competitiveness and determine critical factors which must be considered in order for the e-book sale to be profitable.

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With the growth of digital content industry, publishers start to provide online services for ebook search, reading and downloading. Users can access to online resources from anywhere, any place with laptop or mobile devices at any time. Nowadays more and more libraries have purchased ebooks as an important part of the library collection. To access the online resources users can link directly to publisher's ebook portal or via the OPAC system. Compared to the library circulation process, ebooks are more convenient to patrons and improve the utilization of library online resources. There are various kinds of ebooks available in the market, so libraries have to focus their investment on the most valuable online resources. Usage statistics report plays an important role in providing valuable information to libraries. It is usually based on the standard of COUNTER to generate the statistic reports, although it provides when and where users access to specific ebooks, it fails show the general topics and how they change. In this study, we introduce a post process method to weighting the LDA topic model via the usage statistic report to emphasize the changes of topic and compare it to the classification method and subject heading method in the bibliographic, namely LCC and LCSH respectively. The result show that weighted topic model significantly affect the ranking of topics, and the topic model are independent from the classification method and the subject heading method in the bibliographic record.