Der Bedarf an geeigneten Informationsinfrastrukturen für die digitalen Ergebnisse in der Wissenschaft erfährt zunehmend an Bedeutung und Aufmerksamkeit. Auf politischer, infrastruktureller und organisatorischer Ebene bemühen sich zahlreiche nationale und internationale Initiativen darum,...

Facebook has experienced remarkable development in recent years, and has become the most commonly used online social networking site (SNS). Due to its increasing importance and popularity among users, the platform has attracted attention from many academicians and researchers. The current paper...

The e-book market in Japan is growing in this decade and according to Impress R&D this tendency will be continue. In this paper, we collected 3,000 samples by online survey and found a tendency of consumption of e-book in Japan by using conjoint analysis. We found 1) attachment to physical...

The paper describes our experience with the production of electronic textbooks. Electronic books are defined as supplements to usual printed textbooks. The first part of the paper describes the technical background of our electronic book system. In the second part we describe how this system can...

Statistical software has also become an important part of scientific research that is reflected in the publications of the research results. Publishing a mathematical theorem requires also the publication of the proof of this theorem. The result of a computation can be seen as the equivalent of...

This paper summarizes the peculiarities of online markets and discusses recent antitrust cases related to online markets. Following a brief description of the online markets' characteristics and potential tendencies for concentration the paper first discusses the antitrust allegations and...

As the voice profits of the mobile phone companies continuously decline in Taiwan, they need to find other revenues from the digital contents to survive in the mobile age. The mobile phone companies had created several online platforms to sell digital video, music and books. Especially in the...

As the voice profits of the mobile phone companies continuously decline in Taiwan, they need to find other revenues from the digital contents to survive in the mobile age. The mobile phone companies had created several online platforms to sell digital video, music and books. Especially in the...

Digital reading media can be described as a mixture or blend of information and software and thus represent a new kind of media, coming in many forms and possibilities of reception. Therefore many scientific disciplines get engaged in "digital reading", the changes in the ways of reception, the...