A person reading a book needs to gain insights based on the text. In most books, stories, themes, and references are organized structurally and purposefully. In previous work, we presented the design of an e-Book user interface that reveals the multi-structural information to support reading for comprehension[1]. In this paper, we describe techniques for discovering and representing the narrati...

Legal deposit processes for printed material has been established for centuries [1]. However, the same processes are not necessarily applicable in the case of non-print material such as electronic books. Legal deposit of electronic publications is subject to numerous, often unique challenges such as the legal deposit process, legal issues and infrastructure required. Some of these have been rep...

The idea of a book being a collection of pages is so ingrained that modern electronic book readers often try to faithfully reproduce this feature — up to elaborate simulations of page turns. However, traditional pages are not necessary and often inconvenient in electronic books. It is often easier to scroll the text than to turn the pages, and text reflowing makes the use of folios a rather str...

Recent projects such as Carnegie Mellon Million Books started the process of rapid digitization of traditional books. With other industrial and academic efforts following this lead the main research challenge for both researchers and practitioner is moving from “how we can scan a million books” to “what we can do” with the newly available “million books”. This paper presents a specific approach...

This study is a comparison of AUPress with three other traditional (nonopen access) Canadian university presses. The analysis is based on the rankings that are correlated with book sales on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. Statistical methods include the sampling of the sales ranking of randomly selected books from each press. The results of one-way ANOVA analyses show that there is no significant dif...

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the electronic journal management systems experiences from the field book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining books become ...

This study is a comparison of AUPress with three other traditional (non-open access) Canadian university presses. The analysis is based on the rankings that are correlated with book sales on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. Statistical methods include the sampling of the sales ranking of randomly selected books from each press. The results of one-way ANOVA analyses show that there is no significant di...

This quantitative and qualitative study is aimed to diagnose and promote the use of new technologies in teaching literature reading in Public (State) Schools, assessing materials accessibility and computer skills. The research consisted of three distinct steps: 1. A survey to detect teachers’ and students’ computer skills, their use of computers and accessibility; 2. Search and list websites wh...

In this paper we argue that the plain old “dumb” paper is overlooked as a platform for media. In addition to technology-centric innovations, such as smart paper, the pulp and paper industry should adapt a human-centric approach as well. By using our research on photo books as an example, we bring forth the qualities of paper media from a user-centric perspective. This perspective is critical in...