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Students 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...
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The Cost of Knowledge versus Elsevier
There has been much coverage recently of the website petition launched by Cambridge mathematician Timothy Gowers, winner of the Fields medal, to encourage academics to publicly declare that they will...
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Student 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...
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Users 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...
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Students – 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...
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Measuring the value of e-books in academic libraries
How should academic libraries determine the value of e-books? A Springer White Paper (Scholarly eBooks: Understanding the Return on Investment for Libraries) explores why libraries should measure...
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A new era of TV viewing
A new report by Ericsson ConsumerLab explores the changing TV viewing habits of consumers around the world. The researchers carried out in-depth interviews in the US and Sweden and 12,000 online...
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10,000 students have their say on textbooks
This summer the e-textbook publisher Bookboon.com surveyed nearly 10,000 students in Europe and the US about their use of printed and e-textbooks. (The results for the Netherlands, the UK and the US...
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US 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...
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What is a retweet worth?
A significant number of people retweet without actually clicking on the link themselves, let alone reading the content they are retweeting. Research undertaken by marketing experts Hubspot suggests...
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 ArticleNews in the digital first era
What used to be called ‘the newspaper business’ is under enormous pressure to change. Sales of newspapers are down and, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, job numbers have been falling...
View ArticleDealing with mission impossible – a publishing case study
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) disseminates scientific information in the interdisciplinary fields of geophysics. With over 60,000 members worldwide, the AGU publishes books, research journals,...
View ArticleDoes digital piracy impact revenues?
How much should copyright holders worry about piracy? Two recent research reports provide some contradictory conclusions on the impact of digital piracy. According to Danaher and Smith (Wellesley...
View ArticleCyber security in the UK
Effective cyber security is good for business, according to the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), which has published its 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey. The report...
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 ArticleThe psychology of sharing
If we understand what drives people to share content online, then we can appeal to their motivations to connect our content with others. The New York Times Customer Insight Group has collaborated with...
View ArticleTV viewing trends
The latest report by Ericsson ConsumerLab explores the ways in which connected devices are changing the ways in which consumers view TV and video content. Consumers in 15 countries* were asked about...
View ArticleNew York shooting – citizen journalists on the scene
On September 15th 2013 (as reported in the New York Times), police officers confronted an ‘agitated’ individual and used their firearms, missing the suspect but injuring two bystanders. After the...
View ArticleOpen access: academic libraries and article processing charges
Despite challenges, the new emphasis on OA provides librarians with a positive platform to re-establish their role in the research process. A new report published by SAGE explores the current – and...
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