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The formation of reader’s independence in elementary schoolchildren is an urgent object modern primary education. article discusses forms working with a children’s book that combine traditional means and electronic resources: meeting writers, creating video, using platforms, downloading virtual board, projects, maintaining interactive diary. Each form built on the cooperation children adults bo...

The visually impaired are the people who can have permanent or temporary loss of vision. Such people cannot see, read or write as the normal human beings. There are several substituting equipments and aid to help them lead a normal life. Similarly to read, Braille notations are being used. These Braille editions are not available for each text book. Thus to help them read the conventional text ...

In determining the effect of Internet instructional method on students’ performance, two groups of unrelated students over a period of two semesters in Multimedia Design (TV3014) course offered at the School of IT, Universiti Utara Malaysia were used as samples. One group was taught with conventional teaching method and the other with Internet based electronic book. As this was a first attempt ...

Defining the stages which the reader follows when reading e-resources is one of several factors which can provide significant insights into actual reading behaviours and cognitive processes of readers. Two different samples of students who study in Libyan primary schools, aged 9 to 12, were selected to investigate how students use and interact with both print and digital school books, identify ...

The weeding project at Southeast Missouri State University presented an opportunity to identify different variables, i.e. shelf level, book jackets, added entries, and untraced series, that impacted a book’s circulation behavior and to consider the relationship between circulation and the Internet/online database activity. Using the political science collection, the investigator found that shel...

This article describes an ongoing project on the use of electronic books (e-books) in a higher institution and starts with a discussion on the diversity of e-book definitions to address misconception of its concept. Then, the advantages and associated technology such as hardware, software, formats, and standards are detailed. Comparisons between formats, a discussion on where e-books can be acq...

High Frequency Trading (HFT) represents an ever growing proportion of all financial transactions as most markets have now switched to electronic order book systems. The main goal of the paper is to propose continuous time equations which generalize the self-financing relationships of frictionless markets to electronic markets with limit order books. We use NASDAQ ITCH data to identify significa...

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The digitization of the book industry is often said to lead the physical book to an end. Yet, many existing national book markets refuse to adopt the technological change. Consumers’ resistance to electronic books is generally viewed as a result of high prices and shortcomings of e-reading technology. The current paper tries to take a step toward a more differentiated view on ebook adoption. Th...