This research seeks to assess the impact of electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) on sales performance of digital goods. Digital microproducts – such as Amazon.com’s 49-cent short books, or Apple’s 99cent songs – are digital goods that can be sold anywhere, at any time, at a low acquisition cost and no delivery costs via Web-based electronic commerce. Set at a fixed and low price, it is expected that...

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The World Wide Web (hereafter the web) is used by a huge range of people for a wide variety of purposes, every day. They each use it differently, have different perceptions of its nature, and achieve different outcomes to their searches. Technology has penetrated all areas of life and the use of information and communication technology (ICT) is commonplace in the 21st century. Libraries use ICT...

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This paper discusses the explosion in the use of electronic resources by students and the development of e-books. The existing high usage will intensify as virtual learning environments (VLEs) become the primary means of interaction between students and universities. A brief outline of university library procurement in the UK is given, followed by an analysis of a recent ground-breaking tender ...

This paper examines the current features of and future possibilities for electronic books. After a brief history of printing and the introduction of electronic publishing, the forms and features of eBooks will be described. The strengths and weaknesses of eBooks will then be examined along with other related issues. It will be concluded that eBooks hold the promise for obtaining widespread use ...

We describe an ongoing project carried out by the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade. The project concerns building of electronic resources and presentations of electronic editions of mathematical works in Serbia, including retro-digitization of old books, articles and the other mathematical works, and development of the corr...

ANDREW B. WHINSTON is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair Professor in Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He isaprotessor in the Departments of Economics and Computer Science as well, and Fellow of the IC* Institute, Austin, and the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, for several years a pioneering research facili...

This article will provide data to specify the problem of low e-book-supply. First the total number of commercially available English-speaking e-books in the US-market is stated. Then the growth of the title supply over the last twenty years is reviewed. Third the growth of the publishing-activities in the e-book-market is set in relation to the developments in the hardcover-market. Finally thes...