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  Electronic Rights
Books can have a second life as electronic books (which, by the way, pay royalties from between 25% - 75%).
Electronic rights should not automatically be assumed to go to a book publisher.
Electronic rights should not include posting or displaying an electronic version of the book, or excerpt from the book, but must include sales from which the author benefits.
www.adlerbooks.com /erights.html   (1154 words)

  
 CNN - Dayton electronic book classroom pilot to begin Sept. 1 - August 31, 1999
Electronic books are smaller, cheaper and simpler than laptop computers but give users the ability to create original text, graphics and audio and import encrypted electronic files from third-party providers, according to Eric Walusis, president of Dayton-based Searchlight eBook Training Inc., which is attempting to bring electronic books into the mainstream.
Electronic books are capable of holding thousands of pages of information and can download data from the Internet or through a docking station, similar to the process involved in 3Com Corp.'s Palm Pilot technology.
The goal of electronic book technology is to provide a paperless environment for its users in education, government and the private sector, Walusis said.
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9908/31/ebook.class.idg/index.html   (425 words)

  
 NIST's Role in Electronic Commerce
Electronic books are hybrid products that combine the printed word with the versatility of computer, touch-screen display technology, and software enhancements including font-resizing and an on-board dictionary.
The Open Electronic Book Standards Forum is working on a common specification in a move that is expected to accelerate the availability of e-books by providing publishers a single format for electronic content.
This means that the receiver of an electronic commerce message must be assured that the message came from the actual sender, that no part of the message has been altered during transmission, and that the contents of the transaction have been kept confidential.
www.nist.gov /public_affairs/factsheet/ecommerce.htm   (1069 words)

  
 Warnings and Cautions for Writers--Electronic Rights Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Because e-books and POD books are produced from a master file stored on disk, some publishers have tried to take the position that even after all physical copies are sold or pulped or remaindered, the book is still in print because it's still available digitally.
Electronic Rights: A Primer: a good discussion of issues with which authors need to be familiar, from literary agency Adler and Robin Books.
The Open E-Book Forum is a standard format for electronic book files, so that books will be compatible with a wide variety of electronic reading devices, and publishers won't have to reformat titles for each machine.
www.sfwa.org /beware/electronic.html   (2407 words)

  
 electronic book review : e-t + t residency
It is here, in electronic book review threads such as webarts, It is here, in the electronic book review threads such as webarts and end construction, that writers and artists associated with the Project will write about, and enact, the key concepts informing their researches.
Electronic Text and Textiles Project facilitates practical and scholarly investigations and material productions by artists, who wish to give direction to the changing technologies and define the terms of a changing cultural context.
We are happy to discuss different models of residencies and seek expressions of interest from artists, designers, writers, scientists and theoreticians interested in exploring connections between text and textiles in general and the impact of technologies on these practices in particular.
www.electronicbookreview.com /public/e-t-t.html   (2085 words)

  
 ::: Electronic Books:::
When we make our electronic books we carefully choose texts, images and content performing a thorough publishing labor to bring to you the features of the best printed books while making the most of the PDF format.
Our electronic books are created for on-screen view, therefore the resolution of the images is not suited for fine printing.
Electronic books are not a substitute for printed books, however they do offer a new option for photography books.
zonezero.com /books4sale/faqs_en2.html   (906 words)

  
 ELECTRONIC RIGHTS: PUBLISHING AGREEMENT ­ GRANT OF RIGHTS & ROYALTY CLAUSES
If the publisher desires to control the electronic rights in the author's work make certain that the publishing contract is very clear regarding the intent of the parties concerning the exploitation of these rights.
The royalty clause as it relates to sales of copies of the book usually provides that the author will receive a fixed or escalating royalty percentage based on the monies received by the publisher or on the suggested list selling price of the books or a variation of these compensation methods.
Although it is my opinion that electronic publishers are exercising a subsidiary right when they license content for electronic distribution, there is far from total agreement among publishers on this issue.
www.publaw.com /erights2.html   (1298 words)

  
 Electronic School: Tools of the Trade
Electronic readers with names like GoReader and SoftBook weigh from 12 ounces to more than two pounds and hold up to a dozen titles each, eliminating the need for overstuffed backpacks that can cause back strain.
Some in the electronic book industry are already predicting that stores will soon feature downloading stations where shoppers can select the title they want, enter a code, and have their choice of reading material immediately transported to a handheld device or diskette.
Electronic School is an editorially independent publication of the National School Boards Association.
www.electronic-school.com /2001/03/0301toolsofthetrade.html   (1565 words)

  
 Reading Online - Electronic Classroom: Electronic Books
An electronic book must have electronic text and that text must be presented to the reader visually.
It is also increasingly common for electronic books to have embedded speech -- either pronunciations of individual words or spoken versions of all or some of the text.
Current estimates suggest there may be as many as 20,000 complete electronic books on the web (Krieger, 1998), the vast majority of them straightforward text with few or no supportive resources.
www.readingonline.org /electronic/ebook/definition.html   (870 words)

  
 E-book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Often, e-books are produced from pre-existing hard-copy books, generally by document scanning, sometimes with the use of Robotic Scanners, having the technology to quickly scan books without damaging the original print edition.
PostScript is a page description language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas for describing the contents of a printed page in a higher level than the actual output bitmap.
It is notable for releasing books in a variety of both free and paid formats, both before and after hard-copy publication, and both as whole books and as parts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/E-book   (3573 words)

  
 Astro Computing - Astro Utilities Electronic Book
Authors of Electronic Books can click on the left button for information on "M-dex" -- a freeware tool for creating a search index for your work.
In particular, the incentive to produce the Astro Utilities Book in Mathcad format was the availability of the free Mathcad "Explorer" and inexpensive (under $100) "Standard" version.
This Astro Utilities electronic book is a calculating tool for the practicing amateur astronomer that is familiar with basic concepts of the hobby and desires to do their own calculations, instead of relying on published estimates.
www.pietro.org /Astro_Util/astro_comp_AU.htm   (953 words)

  
 Mushroom eBooks - Electronic book publishing in Gemstar, PDF, Microsoft Reader and MobiPocket
Turnaround time is much quicker — it typically takes about 3 months to publish a book electronically compared with 12 months or more for a printed book.
The publisher can take risks with the more unconventional books because the cost of publishing electronically is much less than in print publishing —; this means that your unusual, ground-breaking, bizarre or experimental book is more likely to be accepted.
Electronic publishing provides a showcase for your work, and a testing ground — your book may interest a print publisher enough for them to offer you a conventional print publishing contract.
www.mushroom-ebooks.com   (513 words)

  
 Publishing your own electronic book
Superficially, this is because all electronic book converters are HTML-ready, while only a few are Microsoft Word-savvy (and none work with other word processing programs).
The problems of scrolling are further magnified in electronic books, as handheld computers have limited screen space.
Having designed the set of web pages that constitute the book, the next step is to convert them into a single document - an electronic book.
www.handheldsfordoctors.com /learn/ebooks/publishing.htm   (689 words)

  
 The Soundproof Book
The electronic book should be a boon to people with disabilities.
Although a new Web-based service has been recently launched to provide shared access to scanned books, Bookshare.org (see http://www.bookshare.org for more details), scanned books are not equal in quality to electronic books.
For example, an individual scanning a printed book for TTS or braille access for his or her personal use is generally considered fair use.
firstmonday.org /issues/issue7_6/kerscher/index.html   (2827 words)

  
 Publishing Your Own Electronic Book (Ebook) (thesitewizard.com)
Electronic books for sale are becoming increasingly common on the web.
The beauty of publishing your book electronically is that your costs are incredibly low (relative to hardcopy publishing).
Publishing electronic books can provide you with an additional revenue stream (if you're selling them) and a means of promoting your website (there's nothing like a freebie to attract people to your site or business).
www.thesitewizard.com /archive/ebookpublishing.shtml   (1224 words)

  
 CNN - Microsoft pushes electronic book standard - May 28, 1999
Now, several members of the authoring group are abandoning their own proprietary formats for book content, hoping that e-books finally will take off commercially.
They expect the standard to accelerate the availability of electronic book content, according to a statement from the organization.
Electronic books are poised to become a key medium
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9905/28/ebook.idg/index.html   (539 words)

  
 Electronic Books - Boston College
The number of full-text electronic books available on the web is growing at an exponential rate.
A project to publish high quality electronic books across a broad range of fields in history, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.
This is an electronic collection of over 60 volumes of lyric poetry by about fifty Scottish women, written between 1789 and 1832.
www.bc.edu /libraries/resources/ebooks   (1186 words)

  
 Sony LIBRIe E-Ink Electronic Book Update: Science Fiction in the News
Previous electronic books have all had the same problem; they make use of LCD displays that typically offer far lower resolution and lower contrast than ink on paper.
The E-Ink Electronic Paper Display is reflective; the manufacturer claims that it can be easily read in both bright sunlight and inside.
The device is similar in size to a paperback book, and uses 4 AA batteries.
www.technovelgy.com /ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=70   (373 words)

  
 Electronic book-learnin' Drug Store News - Find Articles
It is perhaps the best indication that for all the money that toy makers spend marketing their wares to kids, it's parents who buy toys.
With annual sales of about $225 million and growing at a rate of some 22 percent, according to published reports, electronic learning toys ranks as one of the fastest growing categories in the toy business right now.
ActivePad is a stylus-driven electronic workbook system that incorporates graphic-rich content with voices and music for an interactive learning experience.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3374/is_13_25/ai_108969955   (337 words)

  
 Cover Pages: Electronic Book Exchange (EBX) Working Group
The EBX system defines the way in which electronic books (e-books) are distributed from publishers to booksellers and distributors, from booksellers to consumers, between consumers and between consumers and libraries.
A voucher is an electronic description of e-book permissions transferred from one book owner in the network to another book owner.
Although DRM was a hot topic at this year's West Coast event, attendees found themselves in the midst of a bazaar of incompatible choices made worse by the confusing number of multi-faceted vendors eager to establish their names.
www.oasis-open.org /cover/ebx.html   (1354 words)

  
 Reading Online - Electronic Classroom: Electronic Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This is a revised version of an article originally published in 1997 under the title "Electronic Books for Secondary Students" (Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 40(6), 486-491); it is posted here with the permission of the International Reading Association.
In addition to updating the text to reflect new developments in the field, the authors have taken advantage of the electronic environment to add a number of illustrative resources and links to supplementary information.
Anderson-Inman (e-mail: lynneai@oregon.uoregon.edu) is director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education and of the Center for Electronic Studying at the University of Oregon, Eugene, USA; Horney (e-mail: mhorney@oregon.uoregon.edu) is a research associate in the Center for Electronic Studying at the same university.
www.readingonline.org /electronic/ebook/index.html   (277 words)

  
 Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: Thinking in C++ 2nd Edition by Bruce Eckel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He's had the benefit of a GREAT deal of novice feedback, and the books reflect that.His books are not just about writing in C++/Java, but understanding the intent of the languages and the mindset that goes with thinking in them.
The electronic version of the book will continue to be free, even after it's published.
The book will continue to be freely available on this web site even after it is printed.
mindview.net /Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html   (2790 words)

  
 EServer TC Library: Survey on Electronic Book Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
While people may not want a radical departure from the paper book, they want to do things with electronic books that are not possible with paper books.
For example, they want to 'personalize' their electronic book reading experience by changing the fonts, typefaces, and margins, moving illustrations and tables around the page, sizing images differently than text, and so on.
Adding content should not be viewed as simply creating an annotation or note but adding content that becomes part of the book and incorporated into the table of contents and index.
tc.eserver.org /18640.html   (179 words)

  
 DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide - book description
The book is suitable for new users just getting started, as well as more advanced users needing a complete reference.
Buyers of the paperback version are eligible to receive free electronic updates for one year after the date of purchase.
The electronic updates are complete PDF versions of any new editions that appear during the year.
www.sagehill.net /book-description.html   (536 words)

  
 SSJCPL: E-Books
Electronic Resources page for the subscription databases to which it subscribes for you, if you have a Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library library card.
About the size of a paperback book, it can hold lots of books as well as magazines and newspapers that can be downloaded to your reader by subscription.
Once you have a book fully loaded on your computer screen, you may save it to disk by opening the find menu and choosing "Save as." Then select a directory in which to store your book, give it a name, and choose the format in which you wish to save it.
www.stockton.lib.ca.us /ebooks.htm   (2792 words)

  
 History electronic books (E-books)
Please search these collections individually if they might contain electronic books that would be useful to you.
The Open University Library is starting to provide electronic books (sometimes called e-books or digital books) to help you find the kind of books online for your wider reading or research for which you would otherwise go to a local library.
Provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century, in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
library.open.ac.uk /bysubject/arts/history/arts_hist_ebooks.html   (499 words)

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