Following on from the SuperBook Project jointly run by University College London, University of Wales Aberystwyth and Information Automation Limited, the JISC has granted UCL funding for an e-Book Observatory. The announcement on the UCL Centre for Publishing website reads: The CIBER research group have been awarded £170,000 by JISC for an 18 ...

Readers will know that I am a fan of e-books: I teach courses on e-books, and on how libraries can manage collections of e-books; I am also - as previous entries here will attest - a fan of the social or networked book. But a posting in The Millions, Ride the Shuffle: The Institute for the Future of the Book, set me wondering. I have often ...

It's not just publishers and academics, but authors who are talking about e-books! e-Books have featured large at LBF on Day 1 of the event: Margaret Atwood took part in a panel entitled, “Digitise or Die: What is the Future of the Author?” in which many of the usual issues were raised: you can't read an e-book in the bath, and e-books will be ...

In all the years that they have been around, very little research has been done into the use and efficacy of e-books. I find this not a little strange given the amount of titles available, the aggregators which make them available, and the fact that virtually every university library has some e-books available. I suppose that publishers can ...