purpose: the purpose of this paper is to determine the unimarc &marc21capabilities; for persian printed books and electronic resources cataloguing along with comparing the rate of their adaptation with persian cataloguing rules. the emphasis of this paper is on printed books and electronic resources. methodology: firstly, all the unimarc &marc21; fields that were related to printed books and el...

This paper addresses the issue of how hyperdocuments, accessible via electronic books (E-books) which are read using the World Wide Web, can be endowed with features that enable the personalisation of the interaction process that takes place between the reader and the E-book itself. We introduce a novel, abstract approach to modelling the personalisation of hyperdocuments. This approach aims to...

abstractpurpose: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of internet marketing indices on sales of electronic books and ranking them from the viewpoint of iran’s electronic publishers.methodology: the present study, in terms of purpose is applied and in terms of method is descriptive. in this study, a researcher-made questionnaire has been used for gathering viewpoints of electronic...

We describe a software book model that emulates a range of properties associated with physical books— analog page turning, visual location cues, bookmarks and annotations—and, furthermore, incorporates many advantages of digital environments—hyperlinks, multimedia, full-text search, automatic identification of synonyms, cross-referencing of key terms with an online encyclopedia, and an automati...

In this position paper we argue that electronic book and document readers (H UHDGHUV) open new avenues for computer supported collaborative work. This position draws on our experience building and e-reading with the XLibris “active reading machine,” a portable pen-based computer specialized for the task of reading, critical thinking, and analysis.

the purpose of this study was to investigate the comparative effect of using electronic short story books and traditional printed texts on efl learners’ reading comprehension. for that purpose, ninety female learners ranging in age between fifteen and thirty five sat for the language proficiency test (pet, 2009) as the test of homogeneity and consequently sixty students were selected based on t...