From the Visual book to the WEB book: The importance of design

Electronic Library

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 407-419

  Landoni, M ^a   Wilson, R ^a   Gibb, F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Design; Electronic books; Electronic publishing; Information retrieval; Internet; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010406725     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470010361169     Document Type: Article

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