A good airport read
Passengers at Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport can now take advantage of the world’s first airport e-library. The English and Chinese language collection is available to read in the airport via...
View ArticleA ‘new’ model for ebooks
If Amazon’s Kindle device (other devices are available!) is ‘the iTunes for ebooks’ then what is the Spotify equivalent? (Spotify provides free and fee music streaming to users in a number of European...
View ArticleStudents and academic texts
Now that students (and their families!) are expecting to pay more for higher education, how have their attitudes to the delivery, format and cost of learning resources changed? As part of a one day...
View ArticleStudent attitudes to e-books
What is the truth behind student attitudes to e-and print books? A report first published last year (by eTextbook provider CourseSmart in collaboration with Wakefield Research) and receiving some...
View ArticleUsers of e-content ‘read more’
New research from the US exploring the reading behaviour of consumers has uncovered some interesting insights, in particular that those who read digitally claim to be reading more. One fifth of US...
View ArticleStudents – leading the way or falling behind?
Two interesting pieces of research look at how students are interacting with digital information and e-resources. A recent CourseSmart survey finds that more students are bringing laptops to class than...
View ArticleUS trade e-book sales trends
In a blog post published ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Publishing Perspectives explores sources of data on the e-book marketplace in the US. Two major sources are the BookStats project (run by the...
View ArticleChildren, reading and e-books
The popularity of e-books The digital landscape for children and young adults is changing rapidly. Research from Digital Book World and PlayScience is aiming to monitor these fast moving trends in...
View Articlee-content and e-reading
Is our long history with writing for and reading print on paper affecting the way we create and publish content on digital and connected devices? Are many of us still struggling to ’forget the paper...
View ArticleBook publishing – some recent innovations
Book publishers experimenting with new models; books fighting binge drinking in Italy Netflix models An article on Wired.com looks at a new online fiction service called Rooster in which a book...
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