e-Kitaplar ve Kütüphaneler
| Main Author: | Akbaytürk, Tuba |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | tr |
| Terbitan: |
, 2002
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/8455/1/ekitap-Tuba.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/8455/ |
Daftar Isi:
- E-book, in its broadest meaning, has been defined as a text accessible in electronic medium. Based on this definition, either a publication stored on a cd-rom or accessed through the Web can be considered as an e-book. These examples show that e-books actually have been available for years. The e-books, evolving over years, became texts readable on e-book readers. This evolution triggered not only the variation in the e-book readers, but also in the standards used. While a universal e-book standard has been emerging, different marketing trends have been taking place in the e-book market. Among those trends, the most significant ones are the distributors such as netLibrary, Ebrary, and Questia. This paper will discuss the stages through which e-book has evolved, its latest situation, the primary distributors in the e-book market, their products and pricing policies, how e-books can be used in an academic library context and how library services will be affected, based on copyright issues and usage/access methods. Finally, the improvements in the foreseeable future will be discussed.