Digital Convergence and the Future of Book Publishing: Is E-book a Viable Alternative?
The book industry is facing a new explosion in the forms of e-book and digital libraries on the internet and around the world. This explosion continues to magnify and increase at a staggering rate to a point that, some experts now believe, the number of books available on the internet in Digital lib...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 113 - 121 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2008
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