Promoting your ebooks: lessons from the UK JISC National eBook Observatory

Program

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 185-206

  Lonsdale, Ray ^a   Armstrong, Chris ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Electronic books; Promotional methods; United Kingdom; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954646157     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330331011064212     Document Type: Article

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