Social reading: platforms, applications, clouds and tags
In: Information professional series
In: Chandos Publishing social media series
Introduction -- Towards a new conception of books and reading. Introduction; From books as objects to books as systems: towards a new understanding of books; From the text on the web to the web book; What makes a book an eBook; The Gutenberg parenthesis; New scenarios, new cultural territories -- Reading applications: an analysis. Introduction; Reading devices and applications: main features -- New business models for reading in the cloud; What are 'cloud computing' and cloud hosting?; Books and cloud services for the eBook; Cloud business models; Cloud user rights -- Open access eBooks. Introduction; What is open access?; The objectives of open access; Open access electronic books; Licenses; Books in the public domain on the platforms of major publishers; Self-publishing and streaming reading -- Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation. Introduction; Social reading: a network phenomenon; Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation; Off-line reading platforms, On-line reading platforms; Social reading platforms and applications; New systems of recommendation -- System contents personalisation. Introduction; Ways in which contents can be personalised; Results; The Amazon.com phenomenon -- Social tagging and its applications for academic and leisure reading. Introduction; Social indexing from an agent perspective; The social indexing triangle; Social tagging criteria; Characteristics of social tagging; Social tagging: types and uses; Strengths and weaknesses of social tagging; Social indexing applications -- By way of an epilogue; Appendix; Search engines for electronic books; Digital libraries; eBook initiatives; Doctoral dissertations on-line; Open access software for eBooks