<ul> <li>Figures and tables</li> <li>Introduction</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li></ul> <li>Chapter 1: Towards a new conception of books and reading</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li> <li>Introduction</li> <li>From books as objects to books as systems: towards a new understanding of books</li> <li>From the text on the web to the web book</li> <li>What makes a book an eBook</li> <li>The Gutenberg parenthesis</li> <li>New scenarios, new cultural territories</li> <li>Conclusion</li></ul> <li>Chapter 2: Reading applications: an analysis</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li> <li>Introduction</li> <li>Reading devices and applications: main features</li> <li>Conclusion</li></ul> <li>Chapter 3: New business models for reading in the cloud</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li> <li>What are ‘cloud computing’ and cloud hosting?</li> <li>Books and cloud services for the eBook</li> <li>Cloud business models</li> <li>Cloud user rights</li> <li>Conclusion</li></ul> <li>Chapter 4: Open access eBooks</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li> <li>Introduction</li> <li>What is open access?</li> <li>The objectives of open access</li> <li>Open access electronic books</li> <li>Licences</li> <li>Books in the public domain on the platforms of major publishers</li> <li>Self-publishing and streaming reading</li> <li>Conclusion</li></ul> <li>Chapter 5: Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li> <li>Introduction</li> <li>Social reading: a network phenomenon</li> <li>Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation</li> <li>Off-line reading platforms</li> <li>On-line reading platforms</li> <li>Social reading platforms and applications</li> <li>New systems of recommendation</li> <li>Conclusion</li></ul> <li>Chapter 6: System contents personalisation</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li> <li>Introduction</li> <li>Ways in which contents can be personalised</li> <li>Results</li> <li>The Amazon.com phenomenon</li> <li>Conclusion</li></ul> <li>Chapter 7: Social tagging and its applications for academic and leisure reading</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li> <li>Introduction</li> <li>Social indexing from an agent perspective</li> <li>The social indexing triangle</li> <li>Social tagging criteria</li> <li>Characteristics of social tagging</li> <li>Social tagging: types and uses</li> <li>Strengths and weaknesses of social tagging</li> <li>Social indexing applications</li> <li>Conclusion</li></ul> <li>Chapter 8: By way of an epilogue</li> <ul> <li>Abstract:</li></ul> <li>Appendix</li> <li>Bibliography</li> <li>Index</li></ul>
