Fiction electronic books: A usability study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3232, Issue , 2004, Pages 69-79

  Malama, Chrysanthi ^a   Landoni, Monica ^a   Wilson, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; TEXTBOOKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES; E-BOOKS; ELECTRONIC BOOKS; ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS; USABILITY STUDIES; VISUAL COMPONENTS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 35048838240     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30230-8_7     Document Type: Article

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