José-Antonio Cordón-García is Professor at the University of Salamanca and Executive Board Member of the Institute of History of Books and Reading. José-Antonio has published numerous articles and monographs on the publishing industry. He leads the E-LECTRA research group, focused on the analysis of electronic publishing and new forms of creation and written communication. Julio Alonso-Arévalo is the head librarian in the Translation and Documentation library at the University of Salamanca. He is the editor of the E-LIS Open Access Repository, coordinator of the LIS and InfoDoc mailing lists and author of a number of articles in specialized journals on the topic of e-books, open access and reference managers. Raquel Gómez-Díaz is Professor at the University of Salamanca and member of the E-LECTRA research group. Raquel is an active researcher and teacher with a long list of publications. Prof Gómez-Diaz has also published widely and taught specialized courses on the topic of e-books. Daniel Linder is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Salamanca, Daniel teaches, among other genres, specialized translation for the humanities and business from Spanish into English. He has published a number of articles in international translation studies journals, including TTR, Babel, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology and the ATA Chronicle.

"...concludes by offering a reflection on what this all means for publishing, literature, authors and readers – and where the whole process is likely to go...highly recommended for anyone interesting in the future of the communication of ideas." --Online Information Review,Vol 38, No. 6, 2014"... this book is an excellent text to use regarding the influence on social media on the world of reading. It is a sufficient starting point to begin the analysis of what a book is and will be in the future." --Information & Culture, September 1 2014

• Figures and tablesIntroduction Abstract:Chapter 1: Towards a new conception of books and reading Abstract:IntroductionFrom books as objects to books as systems: towards a new understanding of booksFrom the text on the web to the web bookWhat makes a book an eBookThe Gutenberg parenthesisNew scenarios, new cultural territoriesConclusionChapter 2: Reading applications: an analysis Abstract:IntroductionReading devices and applications: main featuresConclusionChapter 3: New business models for reading in the cloud Abstract:What are ‘cloud computing’ and cloud hosting?Books and cloud services for the eBookCloud business modelsCloud user rightsConclusionChapter 4: Open access eBooks Abstract:IntroductionWhat is open access?The objectives of open accessOpen access electronic booksLicencesBooks in the public domain on the platforms of major publishersSelf-publishing and streaming readingConclusionChapter 5: Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation Abstract:IntroductionSocial reading: a network phenomenonSocial reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluationOff-line reading platformsOn-line reading platformsSocial reading platforms and applicationsNew systems of recommendationConclusionChapter 6: System contents personalisation Abstract:IntroductionWays in which contents can be personalisedResultsThe Amazon.com phenomenonConclusionChapter 7: Social tagging and its applications for academic and leisure reading Abstract:IntroductionSocial indexing from an agent perspectiveThe social indexing triangleSocial tagging criteriaCharacteristics of social taggingSocial tagging: types and usesStrengths and weaknesses of social taggingSocial indexing applicationsConclusionChapter 8: By way of an epilogue Abstract:AppendixBibliographyIndex

José-Antonio Cordón-García is Professor at the University of Salamanca and Executive Board Member of the Institute of History of Books and Reading. José-Antonio has published numerous articles and monographs on the publishing industry. He leads the E-LECTRA research group, focused on the analysis of electronic publishing and new forms of creation and written communication. Julio Alonso-Arévalo is the head librarian in the Translation and Documentation library at the University of Salamanca. He is the editor of the E-LIS Open Access Repository, coordinator of the LIS and InfoDoc mailing lists and author of a number of articles in specialized journals on the topic of e-books, open access and reference managers. Raquel Gómez-Díaz is Professor at the University of Salamanca and member of the E-LECTRA research group. Raquel is an active researcher and teacher with a long list of publications. Prof Gómez-Diaz has also published widely and taught specialized courses on the topic of e-books. Daniel Linder is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Salamanca, Daniel teaches, among other genres, specialized translation for the humanities and business from Spanish into English. He has published a number of articles in international translation studies journals, including TTR, Babel, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology and the ATA Chronicle.

"...concludes by offering a reflection on what this all means for publishing, literature, authors and readers – and where the whole process is likely to go...highly recommended for anyone interesting in the future of the communication of ideas." --Online Information Review,Vol 38, No. 6, 2014"... this book is an excellent text to use regarding the influence on social media on the world of reading. It is a sufficient starting point to begin the analysis of what a book is and will be in the future." --Information & Culture, September 1 2014

• Figures and tablesIntroduction Abstract:Chapter 1: Towards a new conception of books and reading Abstract:IntroductionFrom books as objects to books as systems: towards a new understanding of booksFrom the text on the web to the web bookWhat makes a book an eBookThe Gutenberg parenthesisNew scenarios, new cultural territoriesConclusionChapter 2: Reading applications: an analysis Abstract:IntroductionReading devices and applications: main featuresConclusionChapter 3: New business models for reading in the cloud Abstract:What are ‘cloud computing’ and cloud hosting?Books and cloud services for the eBookCloud business modelsCloud user rightsConclusionChapter 4: Open access eBooks Abstract:IntroductionWhat is open access?The objectives of open accessOpen access electronic booksLicencesBooks in the public domain on the platforms of major publishersSelf-publishing and streaming readingConclusionChapter 5: Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation Abstract:IntroductionSocial reading: a network phenomenonSocial reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluationOff-line reading platformsOn-line reading platformsSocial reading platforms and applicationsNew systems of recommendationConclusionChapter 6: System contents personalisation Abstract:IntroductionWays in which contents can be personalisedResultsThe Amazon.com phenomenonConclusionChapter 7: Social tagging and its applications for academic and leisure reading Abstract:IntroductionSocial indexing from an agent perspectiveThe social indexing triangleSocial tagging criteriaCharacteristics of social taggingSocial tagging: types and usesStrengths and weaknesses of social taggingSocial indexing applicationsConclusionChapter 8: By way of an epilogue Abstract:AppendixBibliographyIndex

José-Antonio Cordón-García is Professor at the University of Salamanca and Executive Board Member of the Institute of History of Books and Reading. José-Antonio has published numerous articles and monographs on the publishing industry. He leads the E-LECTRA research group, focused on the analysis of electronic publishing and new forms of creation and written communication. Julio Alonso-Arévalo is the head librarian in the Translation and Documentation library at the University of Salamanca. He is the editor of the E-LIS Open Access Repository, coordinator of the LIS and InfoDoc mailing lists and author of a number of articles in specialized journals on the topic of e-books, open access and reference managers. Raquel Gómez-Díaz is Professor at the University of Salamanca and member of the E-LECTRA research group. Raquel is an active researcher and teacher with a long list of publications. Prof Gómez-Diaz has also published widely and taught specialized courses on the topic of e-books. Daniel Linder is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Salamanca, Daniel teaches, among other genres, specialized translation for the humanities and business from Spanish into English. He has published a number of articles in international translation studies journals, including TTR, Babel, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology and the ATA Chronicle.

"...concludes by offering a reflection on what this all means for publishing, literature, authors and readers – and where the whole process is likely to go...highly recommended for anyone interesting in the future of the communication of ideas." --Online Information Review,Vol 38, No. 6, 2014"... this book is an excellent text to use regarding the influence on social media on the world of reading. It is a sufficient starting point to begin the analysis of what a book is and will be in the future." --Information & Culture, September 1 2014

• Figures and tablesIntroduction Abstract:Chapter 1: Towards a new conception of books and reading Abstract:IntroductionFrom books as objects to books as systems: towards a new understanding of booksFrom the text on the web to the web bookWhat makes a book an eBookThe Gutenberg parenthesisNew scenarios, new cultural territoriesConclusionChapter 2: Reading applications: an analysis Abstract:IntroductionReading devices and applications: main featuresConclusionChapter 3: New business models for reading in the cloud Abstract:What are ‘cloud computing’ and cloud hosting?Books and cloud services for the eBookCloud business modelsCloud user rightsConclusionChapter 4: Open access eBooks Abstract:IntroductionWhat is open access?The objectives of open accessOpen access electronic booksLicencesBooks in the public domain on the platforms of major publishersSelf-publishing and streaming readingConclusionChapter 5: Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation Abstract:IntroductionSocial reading: a network phenomenonSocial reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluationOff-line reading platformsOn-line reading platformsSocial reading platforms and applicationsNew systems of recommendationConclusionChapter 6: System contents personalisation Abstract:IntroductionWays in which contents can be personalisedResultsThe Amazon.com phenomenonConclusionChapter 7: Social tagging and its applications for academic and leisure reading Abstract:IntroductionSocial indexing from an agent perspectiveThe social indexing triangleSocial tagging criteriaCharacteristics of social taggingSocial tagging: types and usesStrengths and weaknesses of social taggingSocial indexing applicationsConclusionChapter 8: By way of an epilogue Abstract:AppendixBibliographyIndex