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The ebook has established itself in recent years thanks to a confluence of factors. One is the innovations in information technology, which have produced more ergonomic and functional reading devices and changed the reading practices of an important sector of the population. Another [...]

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Book digitization is having a significant impact at all economic, business and legal levels. Concepts that had prevailed since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago have to be changed. With self-publishing, authors do not need publishers, and some indie (independent) [...]

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Electronic books have experienced a series of transformations throughout 2014 that affec the entire value chain of the book –authors, publishers, libraries and readers-. Some of the movements begun in previous years were consolidated in 2014, such as growth in the worldwide production [...]

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Description of the exhibition area of the Online Information Conference that took place on December 1-3, 2009 at the London’s Olympia. The companies, organizations and associations present at the event and some of its products and novelties are described. In particular, the Spanish [...]

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The electronic book, understood as a digital file, has entered the Spanish publishing scene and caused a variety of changes, both within publishing companies and in the relationship between the publishers and other players in the traditional book value chain. We describe these changes, [...]

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The Documentation Department of Editorial Espasa was created in 1860 with the founding of the publishing company. In this interview with its manager, its origin and evolution is shown and the three most important document types in its collections -books, photographs and texts- are [...]

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The results of the pedagogical and documentary engineering have driven distance and distance learning. Scenari –and its Opale model dedicated to training-, is a free software for managing a publishing chain to produce and publish digital educational materials. It allows new approaches [...]

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Luis Collado answers some questions about the program Google Book Search. He describes what it is and what it is not. His words reveal Google’s philosophy of universal access to information.

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In media and content industries, the main effect of digitization has been a radical transformation of information formats and displays. In fact, these formats and displays are responsible for the shifting perceptions of users-consumers concerning how they relate and interact with [...]

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The purpose of this article is to determine the evolution of Communications Departments in publishing companies over the past decade, after the appearance of the e-book in the sector. The work customarily carried out is covered, along with the everyday problems that arise. We have [...]