" Advertising is part of life, " asserts Mi-chael Harris in an essay on the selling and promotion of books. " It is not simply a deplorable spin-off. " Proof of that assertion can be found in this delightful collection based on papers presented at the 30th Annual Book Trade History conference in Bloomsbury in November 2008. The es-says—by academics, librarians, and publishing professionals—reta...

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This paper will present a case study of e-textbooks usage in a 3,000 student, liberal arts college in Western New York, USA. Focus groups were conducted and a summary of results will be presented. Among the key questions are: Are e-books being used? What factors are considered in choosing an e-book over a traditional printed textbook? Is comprehension from an e-book the same as from a printed t...

The fast progress in information technology brings us to the point where we should analyze the position of a commercially printed paper book in the near future. One may state unequivocally that the printed book created by Gutenberg (1398-1468) has finished its role as a carrier of ideas and now it has no future, just as it was with the wonderfully illuminated fables written by monks in the mona...

This paper presents SMIL PhotoShow, an authoring tool for photo books, which allows the creation of enhanced multimedia presentations, enriched with audio (music or spoken) comments, transition effects and animations in a very simple way. Our tool allows to create a digital counterpart of a printed photo book with the aim to bridge the gap between digital web albums and printed photo books. Sin...

The "Kitab al-abniya an haqa iq al-adwiya" (Book of the Foundations of Pharmacognosy) also Known as "Rozat ol-ons wa manfa 'ar on-nafs" is the most ancient medical book in Persian (Farsi), which was written by Abu Mansur Movaffaq ibn Ali Heravi during the period of Mansur ibn Noh Samani between the years 350 to 366 lunar hegira. The book deals with 584 mineral, herbal and animal-based drugs. Th...

" Printing did not invent the book, " An-drew Pettegree reminds his readers at the outset of this highly readable volume. Much of the remaining pages essay a new history of the first hundred and fifty years of printing, a history tantalizingly de-coupled from just the books themselves. This is a vision of the history of the book that may only be possible now that global Internet resources are a...