On the design preferences for ebooks

IETE Technical Review (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India)

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-222

  Chong, Pei Fen ^a   Lim, Yan Peng ^a   Ling, Siew Woei ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Content design; Design guidelines; Design preferences; E books; Navigation design; Page layout

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES; CONTENT DESIGN; DESIGN GUIDELINES; E-BOOKS; PAGE LAYOUT; PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMATS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; LIBRARIES; NAVIGATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 67549089690     PISSN: 02564602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4602.50706     Document Type: Article

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