Books In Electronic Format Research Articles

GENRE AND STYLE SPECIFICITY OF UKRAINIAN BOOKTRAILERS ABOUT THE WAR

The article examines a new genre of advertising media products – the booktrailer, and offers a refined definition of it: booktrailer is a genre of advertising media products that synthesizes verbal, visual, and audio elements to promote books through information technology. The genre and style specifics of contemporary Ukrainian booktrailers about the war are determined. The conditional chronological division of the studied booktrailerized texts about the war has been applied into those written before the full-scale invasion (S. Zhadan “Boarding School” (2017), T. Horikha Zernia “Dotsia” (2019)), and those created after it (N. Sukhorukova “Mariupol. Hope”, P. Vyshebaba “Just Don’t Write to Me About the War”, V. Stancyshyn “Emotional Swings of War”, O. Mykhed “Cat, Rooster, Locker”). Each booktrailer contains narrative elements. Their use depends on the content of the video and varies in length and nature of the narrative. The use of visual elements, such as color palette, graphics, photos, animation, or video, can help convey the style or mood of a book. Audio accompaniment – voiceover, audio recordings of interviews with writers, voiced fragments of the book’s text, music – carries both a semantic and emotional load. The popularity of booktrailers is driven by the surge in social media activity, as well as the sale of books in electronic format, which maximizes the logistics of the book to the reader: viewed the booktrailer → ordered the book → received it on an electronic medium. The linguistic specificity of booktrailers varies depending on the target audience and the genre of the book. The language used in book trailers for books about war is intended to convey the tension, emotionality, and tragic (or life-affirming) nature of events related to military conflict. The target audience of Ukrainian booktrailers for books about the war covers different categories of readers of different ages, interests, and social status, as the war is now affecting the entire population of Ukraine to some extent.

Perspectivas do e-book acadêmico de acesso aberto

Apresenta-se reflexões a respeito das mudanças do livro, do formato impresso para o digital, o e-Book no contexto do acesso aberto, as vantagens e desvantagens do livro no formato eletrônico, ferramentas para autores publicarem seus próprios e-Books, assim como as perspectivas para o futuro da produção e usos do e-Book acadêmico em âmbito internacional. O estudo, de cunho exploratório descritivo, verificou o perfil das bases de dados de e-Books, disponíveis no Portal Capes-Brasil. Entre os resultados, são descritas 50 bases de dados de e-Books disponíveis, classificadas como de acesso aberto ou restrito, país de origem, área de conhecimento e acervo. Para a análise das características e dados quantitativos, foram consultadas as respectivas páginas. Foi possível observar características do acervo de e-Books acadêmicos disponíveis no portal da Capes. A amostra indica a predominância por bases pagas, com acesso restrito, em sua maioria bases comerciais americanas, com acesso limitado apenas à comunidade científica. Esse cenário abre motivações para diversos questionamentos e possíveis pesquisas das mais diversas vertentes. Nesse sentido se fazem necessárias reflexões a respeito do mercado editorial de livros científicos/acadêmicos e suas perspectivas de acesso a toda sociedade.

PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM HAK KEKAYAAN INTELEKTUAL TERHADAP TINDAKAN PELANGGARAN PEMBAJAKAN BUKU ELEKTRONIK MELALUI MEDIA ONLINE

This time progress of science and technology and the increase of national development activities make the sociaty in various aspects of life also experienced an increase therefore the effort of creation and renewal of a legislation is required to be guaranteed a legal certainty. As well as in the field of science art, and literature are closely related to the problem of Intellectual Property Rights, because increasing of technology activities marked by the emergence of innovative new discoveries but unfortunately in the middle development of science and technology sector is not supported by public awareness and market participants to be honest in understanding the importance of protecting Intellectual Property Rights on a product produced by someone. The rise of piracy toward books that happening at this time indicates the weakness of the enforcement of copyright in Indonesia. Books in electronic format should be able to provide a solution to the high price of textbooks but in fact precisely this book in electronic format becomes easier to be plowed online by irresponsible elements to be reproduced in order to gain individual benefits only

E-book and print book price and desirability for university libraries: a comparative study

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare the prices of print and electronic versions of the same scholarly titles charged from a university library. This study also examines whether preferences for print or electronic formats differ with disciplines and whether high preferences for the electronic version in particular disciplines lead to tagging of high prices for e-books in those disciplines. This study evaluates association in prices of e-books and their print versions for scholarly books. It also explains trends in gaps of prices of electronic and their print versions over the time to understand changing price policy of e-books with time.Design/methodology/approachThis is a case study analysing and interpreting prices of 717 book titles available in electronic and print versions out of 1248 book titles recommended by the faculty members of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in early 2014. The minimum prices quoted by publishers or aggregators for these books became the secondary data for the study. The research methodology is based on quantitative descriptive and inferential statistical techniques.FindingsThe study statistically rejected the hypothesis that price tags of electronic and print versions of books do not differ significantly. E-books are usually more expensive than their print counterparts. They are more highly priced in disciplines, where the users prefer electronic books over the print ones. There is a moderate association in prices of electronic and their print versions; libraries can estimate about the budget which would be required for procuring books in electronic format with the help of price of print version; however, the accuracy of this stipulation would be only 20 per cent. The study has highlighted that 95.4 per cent of the scholarly e-books in English medium are published in the USA and the UK. The university presses of Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton and MIT and commercial publishers like Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate and Springer are the major publishers and providers of the scholarly e-books.Originality/valueThis study provides insights into pricing policy of electronic and their print versions of scholarly book titles for libraries. Thus it may be relevant and helpful for library administrators in informed decision making while developing their collections for books.

German Music Libraries in the Age of Digital Transformation—Challenges and Perspectives

German Music Libraries in the Age of Digital Transformation—Challenges and Perspectives Verena Funtenberger (bio) The processes of change in the digital society and their consequences for libraries affect also music libraries, even more they seem bundled herein as under a magnifying glass. Attractive new buildings and facilities of recent years such as in Stuttgart, Essen, Nuremberg, Wiesbaden or currently in Detmold cannot hide the fact that this branch of librarianship is facing major challenges. Here too, as the number of loans of physical media decreases, new concepts must be developed and new paths explored. Digital Offerings in Music Libraries Music libraries have already arrived in the digital age. They collect and make accessible not only sheet music, music books and recording media, they digitise their own collections and provide their customers with electronic resources and services available in digital libraries or an institution’s repositories. These are either accessible on the Web free of charge or licensed, meaning access is possible only via the library’s network or by individual subscription. The most extensive digitised music collections can be found in large academic libraries. They are merged in the Virtual Library of Musicology, which will be presented in the next section. Like the majority of library customers, the user interested in music prefers media and information—if possible—in electronic form on a PC, tablet, or smartphone and available at any time and any location. Until now, public libraries have been able to only partially satisfy these requirements. The legal framework for the lending of e-books have not been clarified and the publishers have not been obligated to grant licenses. Meanwhile, the digital German lending platform “Onleihe”, provided in the majority of public libraries offers more music books in electronic format, especially music education titles, biographies of musicians, and introductory literature on musical topics. The deficiency of legal rules and the rigid austerity policy of the states and municipalities have prevented acknowledgment of the changed user behavior. Both conservatory libraries as well as public music libraries lack sufficient funds and technical equipment for database licenses and for the installation of network access. In municipal music libraries the fee-based digital content hardly exceeds the music segments of the established German Web portal Munzinger (https://www.munzinger.de/, accessed 16 December 2016). But even the included remote access to the Naxos Music Libraries—“Classical Music” and “Jazz”—which provides over 100,000 compact disc recordings through streaming technology in high quality sound and with introductions to musical works, cannot be offered in all music libraries. Nothing less than privileged are the customers of the Hamburg Bücherhallen and the City Library of Hannover. They are the first German library [End Page 86] users having access to over nine million songs from all genres from over 28,000 labels and over 15,000 music videos via the American streaming service Freegal Music (http://www.freegalmusic.com/, accessed 16 December 2016). They are even allowed to download three tracks per week. Of course, this offer has its price, and that cost might currently not be within most libraries’ reach. Sheet music collections are also innovating. The International Music Score Library Project, IMSLP (http://imslp.org/, accessed 16 December 2016), or Petrucci Music Library for short, the world’s largest online collection of public domain and freely available scores, has turned into a true competitor for music publishers, music shops, and music libraries. The argument that the partial, badly scanned scores were no serious alternatives to carefully prepared critical score editions seem relevant only for professional musicians and scholars. A small indication may be the response of a music teacher whose student had printed out a Haydn sonata from the Petrucci Music Library. Asked why he did not suggest that he use a critical edition, he commented tersely: “I’m happy if he still plays Haydn at all!” The gaps in the contents of the Petrucci Music Library, for example, contemporary and popular music are filled by large commercial download sheet music platforms like Notafina (https://en.notafina.de/) or Sheet Music Plus (http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/, both accessed 16 December 2016). Licensing models for libraries have not become an issue, because...

Deeper than the skin: Genetic Skin Disorders

The second edition of ‘Genetic Skin Disorders' was long awaited. The book is well-illustrated with colour photographs and provides easily accessible information on inherited skin disorders. It has a very useful section on differential diagnosis by skin signs. It does not aim to be a comprehensive text book of Dermatology, but an aid to the clinician in establishing the diagnosis, inheritance pattern and syndromic associations of inherited skin disorders. It succeeds admirably in the task it sets out to accomplish. Skin manifestations occur in many genetic disorders, which may involve other organ systems. In some ways, the title of the book is as understated as Gorlin's ‘Syndromes of the Head and Neck'. The annotated bibliography is very helpful and Dr Sybert's comments make interesting reading. The book is available only in hardback. It would be good to have the book in electronic format, which would make it more portable and easier to search. ‘Genetic Skin disorders' is reasonably priced for a text book of this kind. It is recommended for Clinical Geneticists, Dermatologists, Paediatricians and Physicians in Internal Medicine▪

Linking Print and Electronic Books

Library catalog searchers expect to retrieve information for all resources in the catalog that matches their search strategy. They expect keyword searching to retrieve a rich array of resources. In an effort to enhance service to users, the University of Florida Smathers Libraries acquired table of contents data to enrich bibliographic records for print books with publication dates from 1990 to the present. Many of these books have also been acquired in electronic format. Because the record for the same book in electronic format did not include the enhancements, catalog users were likely to retrieve the catalog record for the print version only and remain unaware of the availability of the electronic version. The authors, using insights from discussions surrounding the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) initiative, developed a method for serving users more effectively by linking these records to leverage the enhancements for both versions (two manifestations) of the same title.

EPDIS: The Electronic Pilot Book Display System

The Electronic Pilot Display and Information System (EPDIS) is a new technology that present the traditional Pilot Book in electronic format by means of the current and latest information and visual representation developments. EPDIS is a project co-funded by the European Commission, DG IST and Fifth Framework Program, incorporating six partners from four different EU countries (Germany, Estonia, Spain and Portugal) forming a consortium. The idea is to provide a system that integrates a 3D view of the coastline as seen from the ship’s bridge connected to an information system which is basically a compendium of the data contained in the traditional Pilot Book and other complementary texts like guides to port entry, radio signals and lights books. The 3D visualization of landscapes and shorelines is built by means of digital elevation models (DEM) and a basic electronic charting system based on the Standard S-57. This 3D view is complemented with architectural models of the relevant buildings and marks which are sued for navigation in order to recognize difficult sailing areas. In this way a 3D viewer has been designed as a result of this research and development. The pilot book information is integrated into another database system. The Electronic Pilot Book, as it is called, is a system that organizes the textual information and images from paper pilot books in geo-referenced blocks, this structure of data could be accessed or queried for the electronic chart system when a zone or conspicuous point in the 3D viewer needs explanation. By means of an SML protocol many problems of connectivity and data transfer can be eliminated, mainly all those related to the data formats because of the different kinds of information blocks (text, images, mail addresses, telephone numbers, etc). This paper describes the most relevant aspects for the development of the EPDIS system and the results obtained from the work done on the trial areas of the Baltic Sea, the Portuguese Coast and the Spanish Mediterranean.

Recent Trends and Developments in Publishing in Croatia

Croatia considers the book a priority cultural product. Today various forces, both positive and negative, affect publishing in Croatia. A survey of traditional publishing in Croatia based on statistical data collected by the author in the Croatian ISBN Agency over the past 8 years introduces the main topic. The author then reports on the results of a survey of 1,000 publishers, aimed at establishing which medium publishers used for their books between 1993 and the beginning of 1998, the period when book production passed from printed to digital form. The research results show that modern electronic book forms have been gradually developing in Croatia in parallel with traditional publishing. The number of publishers producing books in electronic format is not great. However, the fact that nearly a quarter of the publishers who returned the questionnaire do produce electronic books, shows that Croatian publishers accept new technologies as they appear in countries with a developed publishing industry, onlyin amuch more modest scope. The author mentions electronic books published by as many as forty publishers, and gives a survey of online-bookstores in Croatia. Special attention is paid to book legislation in the country. As a conclusion the author proposes an incentive for electronic publishing.