The role of visual rhetoric in the design and production of electronic books: The visual book

Electronic Library

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 190-201

  Landoni, Monica ^a   Gibb, Forbes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Books; Communication; Electronic publishing; Metaphors; Visual aids

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003176667     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470010337490     Document Type: Article

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