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The idea of the Library of Alexandria has powerfully expanded over the centuries, embodying the dream of universal … this über-library to everybody with an internet connection. Today the entire collection of human knowledge may be only one … click away. Whether the dream of the Library of Alexandria may be achieved by the Google books project is highly debated …
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played a major role in responding to distance learning. But the e-book is still a novelty in both the library and accounting … businesses. In this paper, we will give an overview of legal, technical, library, and accounting issues that e-book brings and …
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This study examines geographical market segmentation in the market for e-books in the EU, based on data from the Amazon Kindle e-books store, the market leader. Residents in all EU countries have access to the Amazon US Kindle store. However, access to Amazon's 6 e-book stores in the EU (UK,...
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The aim of this work is to improve the functionality, usability and acceptability of future information products and services, to enable linguistic and cultural diversity and contribute to the valorisation and exploitation of Europe's cultural patrimony, to stimulate creativity, and to enhance...
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The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. Policymakers are concerned that these new platforms threaten incentives for the production of original content. As a result, policymakers are contemplating regulations that would force...
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News consumption is moving online. If this move fundamentally changes how news is produced and consumed it will have important ramifications for politics. In this chapter we formulate a model of the supply and demand of news online that is motivated by descriptive features of online news...
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practice. To adjudicate this issue, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library system …) disclosed in patent documents. We find that after a patent library opens, local patenting increases by 17% relative to control … significant and of important magnitude among young companies, library opening induces local inventors to cite more geographically …
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