Journal articles: 'Books on demand'

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Ward, Suzanne. "Books on Demand." Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 14, no. 27 (2002): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j101v14n27_12.

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Naicker, Vinesh, and Brett Cohen. "A life cycle assessment of e-books and printed books in South Africa." Journal of Energy in Southern Africa 27, no. 2 (2016): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3051/2016/v27i2a1343.

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This paper presents the results of a study comparing the life cycle environmental impacts and cumulative energy demands of reading printed books (print system) with those of reading e-books from an Apple Air iPad (digital system), with a specific focus on production of books and use of both options in South Africa. The two systems were compared using the ReCiPe midpoint and cumulative energy demand methods. The findings, which are consistent with international findings, demonstrate that the print system has lower impacts than the digital system in the impact categories of freshwater eutrophication, freshwater ecotoxicity, marine ecotoxicity and metal depletion, whilst the digital system has lower impacts in the categories of climate change, ozone depletion, terrestrial acidification, marine eutrophication, human toxicity, photochemical oxidant formation, particulate matter formation, terrestrial ecotoxicity, ionising radiation, agricultural land occupation, urban land occupation, natural land transformation, water depletion and fossil depletion. The major processes contributing to energy demand and environmental impacts of the print system were paper production and printing. For the digital system the major contributing processes were the production of the iPad and e-book reading. Coal-based electricity and coal-miningrelated activities featured prominently in both systems, affecting environmental impacts and energy demand of products and services in South Africa. A change in the electricity mix to be less coal-intensive reduced the impacts of both systems. Finally, the products demonstrate that relatively few additional readers result in printed books becoming preferable to e-books in almost all impact categories, suggesting the need to consider housing print books in libraries to reduce their relative environmental impacts.

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Li, Yan, and Nan Liu. "Pricing Models of e-Books When Competing with p-Books." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2013 (2013): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/369214.

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With the rise in popularity of e-books, there is a growing need to reexamine the pricing strategy in the e-book supply chain. In this paper, we study two forms of pricing models widely used in the book industry: wholesale and agency pricing models. We first assume a stylized deterministic demand model in which the demand depends on the price, the degree of substitution, and the overall market potential. Subsequently, we employ the game theory to determine the price equilibriums and profit distribution under different pricing models. Finally, we explore the behavior of the publisher and the retailer under different preferences and degrees of substitution through a computational study. Our findings indicate that the e-book price will be lower under the agency pricing model than under the wholesale pricing model, which is counterintuitive. The publishers have higher incentives to adopt the agency pricing model than the wholesale pricing model. The agency pricing model benefits the whole system and can provide readers with books at lower prices. The degree of substitution between the two forms of books and the readers’ preference toward e-book will affect the books’ price and the profit distribution between the publisher and the retailers.

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Newton Miller, Laura. "Demand-Driven Acquisition E-books Have Equal Cost Per Use as Print, but DDA Has Much More Active Use Overall." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 10, no. 1 (2015): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8cc9c.

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A Review of: Downey, K., Zhang, Y., Urbano, C., & Klinger, T. (2014). A comparative study of print book and DDA e-book acquisition and use. Technical Services Quarterly, 31 (2), 139-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2014.875379  Abstract  Objective – To compare usage of demand-driven acquisition (DDA) e-books with print books to help determine if one acquisition model better serves the needs of library users and return on investment.  Design – Case study.  Setting – Library system of a large American public university.   Subjects – 22,018 DDA e-book discovery records, 456 purchased e-book records, and 20,030 print item records were examined.  Method – The researchers examined usage statistics, circulation statistics, and cost measures of DDA e-books and print books. E-books were purchased in 2012 and print books were purchased by the start of the DDA project (January 2012).  Main Results – All but one of the 456 DDA-triggered e-books had repeated use within the first year, totalling 2,484 user sessions. 90% of the triggered e-books had 2-9 user sessions, and over half had at least 4 user sessions. E-books were most used in classes N (fine arts), P (Language and Literature), and R (Medicine). E-books in T (Technology) had a lower percentage of user sessions compared to other subject areas. 712 (3.2%) of the e-books in the discovery pool were used without triggering a purchase. Usage of e-books in the discovery pool (those used but not triggering a purchase) showed a consistent use of e-books by subject. E-books in Class B (Philosophy, Psychology, Religion) were used more in the discovery pool without actually being purchased, suggesting a light use of a wide range of books in this subject area. In contrast, Class R (Medicine) saw less use in the discovery pool than what was actually purchased, suggesting heavier and more focused use of triggered e-books in this area. Only 62.5% of the 20,030 purchased print books included in the study were used in the first 1 to 2.5 years they were added to the collection (i.e., 37.5% were not used in that time period). Half of the print books were used no more than once (once or no use), and more than 90% were used fewer than 10 times. Print books in Class Q (Science) contributed to only 7.5% of the total circulations, suggesting print books are underused in this subject area. 10.2% of total circulation of print books in Class R (Medicine) suggests print books are better used in this area. Print acquisition and use occur more often in classes N (Fine Arts) and P (Language and Literature). The average cost for DDA e-books was of $98.52 per book. The average price per print book was $59.53. The unit cost per print book was $17.73 per use. Depending on various measures, cost per use for e-books ranged from $17.73 to $29.15 per use. (If the measurement included the free use of non-triggered DDA books, the cost per use was $18.07, essentially the same as the print cost).  Conclusion – Both print books and DDA e-books are proportionately distributed across most subject areas. Although DDA and print cost per use are equal, DDA leads to much more active use overall.

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Sekretov, S. S. "A survey on the most in-demand books in Moscow libraries." Voprosy literatury, no. 4 (August 22, 2019): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-4-75-83.

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The article presents a survey of readers’ demand for books and periodicals conducted in Moscow libraries in 2018, which analyzes readers’ tastes and preferences. The most in-demand serious fiction writers include E. Vodolazkin, A. Ivanov, Z. Prilepin, A. Rubanov, D. Rubina and G. Yakhina. The author enumerates the reasons for a particular writer, book or journal to keep their top position in the readers’ ratings over a long period of time. Also described are writers’ advertising strategies, as well as the influence of television and screen adaptations on readers’ demand for new books. Noviy Mirhas long established itself as the main thick literary journal. The article also raises the issue of dwindling circulation of literary journals, and offers advice to writers, editors, publishers and librarians about promoting their products. As a separate topic, the article examines a growing demand for translated literature (published, among others, in Inostrannaya Literatura), as well as for children’s books.

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Holman, Valerie. "Art books in World War Two: a view from the archive." Art Libraries Journal 24, no. 2 (1999): 12–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200019428.

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Art books in the UK during the Second World War were highly visible and in great demand. Despite paper rationing, stocks destroyed by enemy bombing, and military demands on authors and artists, new types of art book were launched to great acclaim. The archives of Penguin and Phaidon reveal both the constraints under which publishers were forced to operate, and the ideas behind initiatives such as the Penguin Modern Painters series, or Phaidon’s early monographs. Both publishing houses sought to extend the market for art books by producing large quantities at low prices, and maintaining a reputation for high quality texts, design and reproductions.

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Turchyn, Sylvia. "Living the First Amendment: Gordon Conable, Madonna’s Sex, and the Monroe County (MI) Library." Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy 1, no. 4 (2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/jifp.v1i4.6316.

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Whenever a library fulfills its mission of purchasing popular books, like best-sellers and titles in high demand, it usually will carry on quietly, without much community controversy. But what happens when the best-seller and in-demand title is also a highly charged sex fantasy full of graphic photographs of one of the most recognizable popular figures of the day, who also happens to be the book’s author? Community outrage, organized protest, multiple and counter legal opinions, terrorist threats to the library, and multiple death threats to the library director were some of the responses to Monroe County Library System’s purchase and open circulation of Madonna’s book Sex.

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Sip, Roman. "Workflow of the Management in Printing Production in Condition of Print on-Demand." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 2, no. 10 (2015): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.210.1003.

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Print-on-demand technology allows printing single book up to 200 copies. Correct use of digital printing and binding equipment effectively addresses the economics of this process as well. A process of storing the books is ignored as the number of printed copies is directly related to the number of orders. Publishing house owning the printed version of PDF publication chooses the file from the database and sends it to the printing company with the on-demand printer. This process is highly efficient for printing companies and also for bookstores as well. Bookstores should be no exception in being Print-on-demand printer owners.

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Buck, Tina Herman, and Sara K. Hills. "Diminishing Short-Term Loan Returns: A Four-Year View of the Impact of Demand-Driven Acquisitions on Collection Development at a Small Academic Library." Library Resources & Technical Services 61, no. 1 (2017): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.61n1.51.

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When St. Edward’s University’s library implemented demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) for electronic books (e-books) in 2011, the program affordably served as the monographic front list for this small liberal arts university library with minimal demands on the professional staff. Over four years, short-term loan (STL) costs have increased at an alarming rate and important publishers have altered what content was made available through aggregator DDA platforms plus the terms of availability of the content. The library examined how DDA fits into it collection-building and management processes in a continually changing environment and offers some strategies and considerations useful for helping in the choice of e-book purchasing models.

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Greco, Albert N., and Robert M. Wharton. "The Market Demand for University Press Books." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 1 (2010): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jsp.42.1.1.

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Carolan, Simon. "From Print on Demand to Enhanced Books." International Journal of the Book 9, no. 3 (2012): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9516/cgp/v09i03/36942.

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Liu, Ziyang. "Smart bookcase based on image recognition." E3S Web of Conferences 233 (2021): 04038. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202123304038.

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With the improvement of people’s living standards, the demand for books and the efficiency and accuracy of accessing books are also increasing. Because the information displayed to readers on the library management system is the position of the book when it is neatly arranged, sometimes the position of the book is inconsistent with the actual position of the book, which increases the difficulty for readers to find the target book. The traditional bookcase has a simple structure, and it takes a certain amount of time to search for books on weekdays. In view of the time-consuming situation of borrowing books, and in order to make it convenient for borrowers to find books, it is extremely important to develop a new type of networkable smart bookcase for libraries.

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Orr, Leah. "Prices of English Books at Auction c. 1680." Library 20, no. 4 (2019): 501–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/library/20.4.501.

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Abstract Scholars have noted the significance and spread of the second-hand book trade in seventeenth-century England, but so far little information about the books and their prices has been available. This essay examines the evidence from annotations to an early book auction catalogue relating to ten auctions that took place in London between 1676 and 1682, providing the prices for thousands of books. A comparison between the prices for which books sold at auction, and the prices of the same books new in the Term Catalogues in the decade prior to these auctions reveals that most of the relatively new books sold at auction for a considerable discount off their retail price. For older books, the prices primarily depended on condition and demand rather than the expense of producing the book or its age. This shows a turn towards a customer-driven pricing structure which has significant implications for how we understand the connection between book prices and readers in the late seventeenth century.

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Attar, Karen. "Illustration, book history and research facilitation: some observations." Art Libraries Journal 37, no. 3 (2012): 8–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200017545.

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What role does book illustration play in teaching book history, and how can libraries best support it? This article looks briefly at the lack of interest in book illustration as part of traditional historical bibliography and its increasing importance in the wider field of book history. Using the example of the London Rare Books School, an international summer school, it outlines the nature of the books needed and the extent to which a teaching collection may supply them. It further discusses how and why librarians and teaching staff can collaborate fruitfully to satisfy demand.

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Safley, Ellen. "Demand for E-books in an Academic Library." Journal of Library Administration 45, no. 3-4 (2006): 445–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j111v45n03_09.

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Lewis, Ron M., and Marie R. Kennedy. "The Big Picture: A Holistic View of E-book Acquisitions." Library Resources & Technical Services 63, no. 2 (2019): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.63n2.160.

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The merging of two departments into the Acquisitions and Collection Development Department afforded Loyola Marymount University an opportunity to rethink existing workflows, with the acquisition of electronic books (e-books) being identified as a critical task to review. Process mapping was used to show the complexity of different tasks being performed in the department and to provide a visualization mechanism for staff to see how their work fit into a sequence of actions as part of a larger workflow. The authors listed the types of acquisition models used at their library for e-books and constructed process maps for the following six major types: 1. Firm order e-books; 2. Firm order e-book collections; 3. Approval order e-books; 4. Demand-driven e-books; 5. Standing order e-books, and; 6. Subscription e-book database. The authors merged the individual process maps into a single visualization to view the entirety of the acquisition process as a whole and to show how the different e-book acquisition models relate and diverge from one another.

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Shandler, Jeffrey. "The Jewish Book and Beyond in Modern Times." AJS Review 34, no. 2 (2010): 377–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009410000401.

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How might one begin to think about the Jewish book in the modern era? The period is defined by unprecedented proliferation—not only of many new books, but also of an array of new kinds of books, as well as a plethora of new print and other communications technologies, new professions and institutions associated one way or another with books, and new text practices. This burgeoning volume of material, as well as the expansive range of possibilities for books and how they figure in Jewish life, demand that those who would study the place of the book in modern Jewish life (up to and including contemporary phenomena) would do well to begin with reconnaissance, casting the net wide and considering which larger issues this wealth of materials and practices suggests for further study. This survey not only yields an impressive roster of potential subjects of inquiry; the information itself suggests possibilities for understanding Jewish books and book practices as a defining feature of modern Jewish life.

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Wishaupt, Maggy. "Art book publishing in the Netherlands." Art Libraries Journal 17, no. 3 (1992): 49–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200007999.

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Probably only about 5% of books published in the Netherlands are art books. There is a very limited demand for art books in the Dutch language; in order to sell in greater numbers, books have to be produced in English or in several languages, and/or as co-editions, while the domestic market is flooded by foreign imports including cheap remainders. In these circumstances the publication of art books depends on grants or on the income which some publishers earn from bookselling, printing, or other activities. Nonetheless a few, small, specialist publishers are producing art books of high quality, while some general publishers also publish the occasional art book. Museum publishing activities are considerable but are largely confined to exhibition catalogues.

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Costello, Laura. "Comparison of E-Book Acquisitions Strategies Across Disciplines Finds Differences in Cost and Usage." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 12, no. 1 (2017): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8zp70.

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A Review of: Carrico, S.B., Cataldo, T.T., Botero, C., & Shelton, T. (2015). What cost and usage data reveals about e-book acquisitions: Ramifications for collection development. ALCTS, 59(3). Retrieved from https://journals.ala.org/lrts/article/view/5752/7199  Abstract  Objective – To compare e-book cost-usage data across different acquisitions styles and disciplines.  Design – Case study.  Setting – A public research university serving an annual enrollment of over 49,000 students and employing more than 3,000 faculty members in the Southern United States.   Subjects – Cost and usage data from 15,006 e-books acquired by the Library through packages, firm orders, and demand-driven acquisitions.   Methods – Data was collected from publishers and vendors across the three acquisitions strategies. Usage, cost, and call number information was collected for the materials purchased via firm order or demand driven acquisitions and these were sorted into disciplines based on the call number assigned. Discipline, cost, and use were determined for each package collection as a whole because information on individual titles was not provided by the publishers. The authors then compared usage and cost across disciplines and acquisitions strategies.   Main Results – Overall, e-books purchased in packages had a 50% use rate and an average cost per use of $3.39, e-books purchased through firm orders had a 52% use rate and an average cost per use of $22.21, and e-books purchased through demand driven acquisitions had an average cost per use of $8.88 and 13.9 average uses per title. Package purchasing was cost effective for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) materials and medicine (MED) materials. Demand driven acquisition was a particularly good strategy for humanities and social sciences (HSS) titles.   Conclusion – There are differences between the acquisitions strategies and disciplines in cost and use. Firm orders had a higher cost per use than the other acquisitions strategies.

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Greco, Albert N., and Robert M. Wharton. "The Market Demand for University Press Books 2008–15." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 1 (2010): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scp.2010.0003.

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Zhang, Yin, Kay Downey, Cristóbal Urbano, and Tom Klingler. "Notes on Operations: A Scenario Analysis of Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) of E-Books in Libraries." Library Resources & Technical Services 59, no. 2 (2015): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.59n2.84.

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Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) has been commonly adopted by academic libraries in the United States for acquiring e-books in recent years. Implementation of the e-book DDA model varies by library. This paper introduces and demonstrates a scenario analysis approach for libraries to evaluate, identify, and select a DDA plan that works best for them based on their DDA program data. This approach helps address some key questions facing libraries with a DDA e-book program: How may a DDA program be evaluated under different scenarios? Does a short-term loan (STL) option make sense? And, is the current DDA implementation a good fit for the library? The implications and related issues are discussed.

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Prokop, Viktor, and Jan Stejskal. "Cross-Generation Analysis of e-Book Consumers’ Preferences—A Prerequisite for Effective Management of Public Library." Information 11, no. 2 (2020): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info11020072.

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Nowadays, with the growing importance of providing digital services, public libraries offer a wide range of e-books. However, current studies show that reading preferences vary across countries, and identifying e-book demand is therefore difficult. For these reasons, this article focuses on different groups of e-book readers (pensioners, students, economically active) and on factors affecting their attitude to reading e-books, willingness to receive new library services and willingness to pay for them. For the purpose of this analysis, we are using unique data from an online questionnaire survey among readers of the Municipal Library of Prague in 2019 and own binary logistic models. The results show how e-book genres, information preferences and devices for reading e-books primarily affect selected groups of e-book readers. The unwillingness of e-book readers to pay for library services is also evident, especially among students. In the last section, we propose some practical implications that could help to library management and possibly attract more e-book readers from different groups.

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Širiņa, Ieva, and Aina Strode. "DESIGN TRENDS IN CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION - AN EXAMPLE OF LATGALIAN ABC DESIGN." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 4 (May 28, 2021): 705–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2021vol4.6255.

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Children's book illustrations have always been an area that allows artists to make the most of their creative potential. Modern design trends for children's books are changing both in the world and in Latvia. The most relevant of these are minimalism and color purity, simplicity and quality. Research also highlights the choice of illustration and font style in favor of retro style and handwriting. Picture books on the topics of kindness and love are popular in terms of content. Activity books are useful for interactive communication. The aim of the article is to develop the concept of graphic design of the ABC of Latgalian language by studying design trends in children's book illustration and the supply and demand of children's Latgalian literature in Latvia. Research methods: theoretical - research and analysis of literature and Internet resources, empirical - questionnaire, analysis of analogues.

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Kohn, Karen. "Using Logistic Regression to Examine Multiple Factors Related to E-book Use." Library Resources & Technical Services 62, no. 2 (2018): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.62n2.54.

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Many studies have tried to identify factors that make electronic books (e-books) in academic libraries more likely to be used. For instance, are demand-driven acquisitions used more than titles in packages? Are e-books in the sciences used more than e-books on art? Most of these studies are limited to one or two variables. This study introduces logistic regression, which can incorporate multiple variables to determine which factors are the most useful in predicting e-book usage. The variables considered in this study are LC class, university press or other publisher, and platform. In the collection studied, the classes with the highest odds of being used were A (General Works), followed by F (History of the Americas), H (Social Sciences), and Q (Math and Science).

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Kopeć, Katarzyna. "Reduced Value Added Tax (VAT) Rate on Books as a Tool of Indirect Public Funding in the Cultural Sector." Sustainability 12, no. 14 (2020): 5590. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12145590.

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The article concentrates on the relationship between reduced value added tax (VAT) rate on books and readership level as a projected goal in cultural policy. To figure out this complex link, the paper explores the contribution of public management and economy to this knowledge to uncover the potential of following assumptions: (1) Reduced VAT rate results in the fall in book prices for consumers; (2) lower book prices stimulate the demand for books; (3) higher consumption of books (book purchase) is reflected in a higher level of readership. Indirect funding is very often worth more (quantitatively) than a direct mode of subsidizing. Indirect instruments, including VAT reduction, are not always the simplest way towards a cultural policy target. Despite great potential as an indirect funding tool, the VAT reduction requires a high-quality ex-ante assessment, and mid-term evaluation to verify the effectiveness and consequences of using VAT as a tax exemption in the cultural policy.

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Ismail, Ismail, Alfiah Alfiah, and Darni Darni. "BUDAYA MAHASISWA DALAM MENGGUNAKAN PIRATED BOOKS DI PERGURUAN TINGGI KOTA PEKANBARU." POTENSIA: Jurnal Kependidikan Islam 4, no. 1 (2018): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24014/potensia.v4i1.5012.

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This study aimed to know the culture of students in using pirated books. The location of the study was conducted at State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau), University of Riau, Universitas Islam Riau, and Lancang Kuning University in Pekanbaru City. Based on the analysis of student economic factors, it shows that the student culture in using pirated books was not because of economic factors. It was evidenced by most of the students with good economic conditions or in the middle to lower class. Based on students' understanding of Copyright, it indicated that students comprehend and understand about copyright. However, respondents considered the copy of the book for the benefit of education does not violate the copyright because to facilitate the science. Actually a photocopy of a book for the benefit of education to facilitate the demand for science is basically an act of copyright infringement because it includes actions to reproduce without permission and disseminate it. Student’s attitudes to regular ordinary photocopies/copies are familiar with copier/pirate books. Based on the habits (culture) of students in buying reference books where the purchase of photocopy reference books/pirates is already a student habit.

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Nabe, Jonathan, Andrea Imre, and Sanjeet Mann. "Let the Patron Drive: Purchase on Demand of E-books." Serials Librarian 60, no. 1-4 (2011): 193–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526x.2011.556033.

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Losoff, Barb. "Academic E-books: Supply Before Demand in the Life Sciences?" Acquisitions Librarian 19, no. 3-4 (2008): 299–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08963570802026344.

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Wall, Terry, and Jan Williams. "Availability, accessibility and demand for recommended books in academic libraries." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 31, no. 3 (1999): 145–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096100069903100303.

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Williams, T. J. "Availability, accessibility and demand for recommended books in academic libraries." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 31, no. 3 (1999): 145–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000994244471.

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Zhou, Yunxia, and Xiaozhu Zou. "Strategy to Promote Professional Reading in University Libraries." Computer and Information Science 11, no. 3 (2018): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/cis.v11n3p95.

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Reading promotion in university libraries needs to consider the differences in reading behavior of different readers and adopt suitable reading promotion strategies. Here, we first review the current situation of professional reading promotion and distinguish the demand characteristics of different types of readers. Then we conduct personal interviews with graduate students in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and results demonstrate that the demands of graduate students for information on professional reading promotion and reading professional books and literatures become their indispensable demands in reading. Therefore, the visible display strategy to professional reading promotion is suggested for university libraries. Finally, taking an example of the reading promotion for zero-borrowing professional books, it is proved that the proposed strategy can increase the proportion of borrowed books and promote professional reading. In summary, we use tangible display strategy as theoretical basis and testify the proposed strategy for professional reading promotion: 1) a special cabinet displaying relevant professional books, 2) resources and charts, 3) placing bookshelves of stereoscopic models, and 4) designing and distributing a reading brochure.

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Pinks, Anna. "Book Review: Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users." Library Resources & Technical Services 60, no. 4 (2016): 279. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.60n4.279.

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In their introduction to Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians and Users, editors Ward, Freeman and Nixon list the potential promises of e-books to libraries: they cannot be lost or damaged, they do not require staffing to check-in and out and shelf, they take up no space, they can be purchased on demand, they can be checked out by multiple users, and they are often searchable. These promises are particularly enticing when so much scholarship is done through online journal databases and when library service models are shifting from a focus on physical collections to an emphasis on creating spaces for collaborative scholarship. However, e-books also present challenges that the editors summarize in two statements: “1) lack of sufficient content and 2) users’ stated preference for print books in many cases” (2). The Academic E-Books contributors flesh out these issues through specific examples from the publishing industry, libraries, user experience and case studies. They also demonstrate how libraries are combatting challenges to successfully integrate, and in some cases replace print with, e-book collections.

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CURRAN, MARK. "BEYOND THE FORBIDDEN BEST-SELLERS OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE." Historical Journal 56, no. 1 (2013): 89–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x12000556.

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ABSTRACTRobert Darnton's acclaimed 1995 work on the late eighteenth-century francophone illegal book trade, The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France, has become one of the most cited and studied texts in its field. The culmination of thirty years' archival research and reflection, it roots Darnton's previous case-study-driven articles and monographs in a wide-ranging empirical survey of the order books of the Swiss printer-booksellers, the Société typographique de Neuchâtel. It claims to offer readers a picture of what illegal books went into bookshops everywhere in pre-revolutionary France. The first fruits of the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project, a digital humanities initiative that has created an on-line database revealing the STN's entire trade, this article challenges Darnton's interpretation of the nature and utility of the Neuchâtel archive. It demonstrates that the STN's order books are an unreliable gauge of general French demand. It goes further. It argues for a nuanced polycentric understanding of the eighteenth-century Francophone book trade, and outlines a bibliometric digital humanities pathway that might lead us there.

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Prokopyuk, Oksana. "Replenishment of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Library with new Editions in the 1770-80s: Initiators, Implementers, Needs." Kyivan Academy, no. 17 (March 10, 2021): 119–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18523/1995-025x.2020.17.119-141.

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The article examines the socio-cultural aspects of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Library functioning in the 1770–80s. The focus is on acquiring the books as a purposeful way to form a collection of books that best demonstrated the monastery’s needs for books, interests and reading tastes of the fraternity. The author attempts to reconstruct the network of «book agents»: people who assisted in books acquisition; determine who was the initiator and who was the implementer of procurement; specify the needs in the printed books, as well as whether printed books completely displaced the manuscripts at the end of the 18th century.The author discovers the interest of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in replenishing the book collection not only to meet the readers’ needs of the fraternity but also based on the understanding of the importance of a well-stocked library to confirm the status of the monastery. It has been established that the «book agents» were the Lavra attorneys in Moscow and St. Petersburg, who carried out various assignments of the monastery; former Lavra monks transferred to other dioceses; or persons loyal to Lavra, specifically involved for this purpose. There is interest in translated literature, periodicals, new publications, and activity in the purchase of printed materials, which generally signals changes in the reading practices of the monastic corporation. The analysis of the repertoire of purchased books confirmed the spread of the ideas of the Enlightenment and the growing demand for secular and educational books on science and nature. The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, while remaining quite traditional in the segment of theological literature, where Latin continued to dominate, demonstrated openness to new trends in book culture of the second half of the 18th century.

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Owen, E., A. J. Kitalyi, M. C. N. Jayasuriya, T. Smith, and J. I. Richards. "Participatory production of a new animal science text book `Livestock and wealth creation: improving the husbandry of animals kept by resource-poor people in developing countries’." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science 2005 (2005): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752756200009388.

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This text book was conceived in January 2002, in Tanzania, during a DFID Livestock Production Programme (LPP) workshop. Perceived justifications for such a book were: (1) to improve the preparation of animal science students to address livestock issues faced by resource-poor subsistence farmers in developing countries; the majority of livestock text-books are either a) authored in the ‘north’ and based on temperate, large-scale, commercial systems or b) based on a single species and technology ‘fix’ approach, with insufficient focus on the systems under which livestock are kept by the resource-poor, or on improving livestock survival and productivity and understanding the contribution they make to livelihoods; (2) to address the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living in absolute poverty by 2015 through `training teachers’ using appropriate information. Three quarters of poor people live in rural areas and keep livestock; (3) to respond to the large demand for meat and milk over the next 20 years foreseen by the burgeoning ‘Livestock Revolution’ and the consequent opportunities for resource-poor livestock keepers to move from subsistence to a market-oriented economy. The LPP agreed to commission the book provided that consultation with stakeholders confirmed a demand for it and that a broad electorate of stakeholders participated in the book’s design and production. Two editors (E. Owen and T Smith) were appointed to undertake the consultations and subsequent production of the book in collaboration with the Manager of LPP (J.I. Richards).

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Lizunova, I. V., N. V. Radishauskaite, A. N. Asheshova, I. S. Troyak, and V. I. Moskina. "FORTUNES OF PERSONAL LIBRARIES IN THE ERA OF PAPER BOOKS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES." Proceedings of SPSTL SB RAS, no. 4 (January 24, 2021): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/2618-7575-2020-4-46-55.

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The article is intended to draw attention to problems common to all existing libraries: forming and picking out personal collections from ones that are more common, their history of existence study, identification, assigning in a single collection, preservation, popularization and accessibility to modern readers. The work is devoted to the theme of personal libraries in the era of paper books and digital technologies and includes materials presented in the series of webinars “Bibliosphere: New Formats” held by the State Public Scientific Technological Library of SB RAS in the summer of 2020. By a personal library the authors mean an ordered collection of books and other documents (electronic, handwritten, etc.), belonging to an individual or family, formed by him / them for personal use. The problems presented in the article concern personal libraries formation in the late XIX – early XXI century: composition and design peculiarities of bibliophile collections; practice of using stamps as a sign of ownership on books; variety of marking personal book collections (super ex-librises, ex-librises, owner’s inscriptions, owner’s stamps, owner’s and book signs); approaches and preferences of personal libraries’ owners; fortunes of books and bibliophiles; problems of book collections preservation in the stocks all over the world; demand for personal collections by contemporaries: researchers, librarians, bibliophiles, readers/users.

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Garthwaite, Craig L. "Demand Spillovers, Combative Advertising, and Celebrity Endorsements." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6, no. 2 (2014): 76–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.6.2.76.

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This paper studies the economic effects of endorsements. In the publishing sector, endorsements are found to be a business stealing form of advertising that raises title level sales without expanding the market size. If anything, the endorsements decrease aggregate adult fiction sales. This might be a result of the endorsed books being more difficult than those that otherwise would have been purchased. Economically meaningful sales increases are also found for nonendorsed titles written by endorsed authors. This spillover demand demonstrates the broad range of benefits of advertising for firms operating in a multiproduct brand setting. (JEL L82, M31, M37)

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Hanson, Katie. "Positive Psychology for Overcoming Symptoms of Depression: A Pilot Study Exploring the Efficacy of a Positive Psychology Self-Help Book versus a CBT Self-Help Book." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 47, no. 1 (2018): 95–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352465818000218.

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Background: Depression is an extremely common mental health disorder, with prevalence rates rising. Low-intensity interventions are frequently used to help meet the demand for treatment. Bibliotherapy, for example, is often prescribed via books on prescription schemes (for example ‘Reading Well’ in England) to those with mild to moderate symptomology. Bibliotherapy can effectively reduce symptoms of depression (Naylor et al., 2010). However, the majority of self-help books are based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which may not be suitable for all patients. Research supports the use of positive psychology interventions for the reduction of depression symptoms (Bolier et al., 2013) and as such self-help books from this perspective should be empirically tested. Aims: This study aimed to test the efficacy of ‘Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression’ (Akhtar, 2012), a self-help book for depression that is based on the principles of positive psychology, in comparison with a CBT self-help book that is currently prescribed in England as part of the Reading Well books on prescription scheme. Method: Participants (n = 115) who were not receiving treatment, but had symptoms of depression, read the positive psychology or the CBT self-help book for 8 weeks. Depression and well-being were measured at baseline, post-test and 1-month follow-up. Results: Results suggest that both groups experienced a reduction in depression and an increase in well-being, with no differences noted between the two books. Conclusions: Future directions are discussed in terms of dissemination, to those with mild to moderate symptoms of depression, via books on prescription schemes.

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Karanets, Snezhana M. "Terms of Circulation of Books in Public Libraries. Transformation of Demand." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], no. 6 (December 8, 2015): 108–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2015-0-6-108-114.

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The article analyzed the main reasons of significant reduction of demand for the services of public libra-ries of Russia from 1980 to 2014. There are revealed the factors preventing reduction of the capacity of market of the cultural goods.

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Ringstad, Vidar, and Knut Løyland. "The Demand for Books Estimated by Means of Consumer Survey Data." Journal of Cultural Economics 30, no. 2 (2006): 141–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10824-006-9006-7.

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Møller, Jes Fabricius. "Anmeldelser: Grundtvig og kvækerne." Grundtvig-Studier 69 (December 31, 2018): 199–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v69i0.121890.

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Bailey, Jesse. "Colloquium 3 Commentary on Moore." Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 35, no. 1 (2020): 98–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134417-00351p09.

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Abstract This paper is a response to Christopher Moore’s excellent paper, “Questioning Aristotle’s Radical Account of Σωφροσύνη.” I expand upon some of the themes in the four suggestions Moore makes in his “Four Possible Defenses” of Aristotle that I take to be the most fruitful avenues of research. I then argue that pursuing these avenues will show that Aristotle’s thinking in the Nicomachean Ethics about σωφροσύνη—and virtues in general—cannot be understood by looking only at the early books. I argue that his deeper analysis of virtue and φρόνησις in book VI demand a revaluation of the apparent finality of his comments in book III. Specifically, I argue that the Nicomachean Ethics as a whole is constructed as a dialectical advancement that points to a progressively deepening understanding of the relationship between the discussion of the individual virtues in the early books and the discussion of φρόνησις in book VI must be developed in order to understand Aristotle’s conception of any individual virtue.

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KILIÇ, Ali. "THREE DIMENSIONAL MOVABLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN." Volume 6, Issue 2 6, no. 2 (2021): 179–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.26809/joa.6.2.08.

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Three dimensional (3D) “pop-ups” are multisensory books appealing to audio, visual and tactile experiences of readers. They bring children and parents together and positively contribute to the educational and cognitive development of children. The design and production process of pop-ups plays an important role in the efficiency of this contribution. The increasing number and demand towards these books in recent years necessitates an interdisciplinary study from the perspective of visual and media arts, related engineering fields (such as paper engineering) and publishing technologies. Pop-up books are also regarded as educational materials, therefore constituting an interesting subject for pedagogy.

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van Ommen, Léon. "Spiritual care." Theology 121, no. 1 (2018): 43–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x17719676.

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This article reviews four books on spiritual care in various chaplaincy and counselling settings. Before discussing the books individually, some tensions in the field of spiritual care and chaplaincy are highlighted: the relationship between religion and spirituality, the call for generic caregiving and the demand for tangible outcomes of spiritual care.

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Nofrianda, Nofrianda, and Malta Nelisa. "Penyusunan Bibliografi Beranotasi tentang Tan Malaka di UPT Perpustakaan Proklamator Bung Hatta." Ilmu Informasi Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan 8, no. 2 (2020): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/109091-0934.

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Abstract The writing of this paper aims to describe how the needs of visitors about the Tan Malaka collection, describe the process of making annotated Tan Malaka bibliography and describe the constraints and efforts in establishing the Tan Malaka annotated bibliography at the UPT Library of Bung Hatta Proklamator. This type of research is descriptive in that it explains the making of annotated bibliography about Tan Malaka at the Bung Hatta Library UPT. Data collection techniques through direct observation to the location and interviews and data collection by reading and studying sources in the form of books, literature, and teaching materials. Based on the data processed can be concluded as follows. First, the information needs of users about annotated bibliography about Tan Malaka, namely: education, reference materials and research. Second, making annotated bibliography about Tan Malaka has several stages, namely: (a) determining the title of the bibliography, because the availability of books is quite a lot and is a book that is in great demand; (b) collection of library materials or information retrieval, a book about Tan Malaka in the Bung Hatta Library UPT 34 titles; (c) selection of library materials, by checking one by one the Tan Malaka book collection; (d) classification or classification, carried out by using numerical notation sequence numbers; (e) creation of keywords, based on the book's title and the annotation of Tan Malaka's book; (f) index preparation, Tan Malaka's annotated biblographic index consists of author index, keywords and titles arranged in alphabetical order; (g) typing the text, using Times New Roman writing style, font size 12, and space 1; (h) examination of the final bibliographic manuscript. Third, the constraints and efforts in making annotated bibliography about Tan Malaka, namely: (a) the preparation of Tan Malaka's collection of books is irregular and the efforts made are doing stock taking; (b) the collection of Tan Malaka only has 1 copy and the effort to do is take action over the media.Keywords: annotated bibliography; Tan Malaka.

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Voigt, Kati. "Becoming Trivial: The Book Trailer." Culture Unbound 5, no. 4 (2013): 671–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.135671.

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Despite the introduction of audiobooks and e-books, printed stories still are in high demand. However, in a globalized world which is more and more ruled by mass media and technology, it is increasingly difficult for writers and publishers to promote their books. The solution is almost ironic: popular media, which is assumed to decrease readership, is turned into a tool to increase the number of readers. In 2002 the book trailer emerged as a new web-based marketing strategy for the launch of new books. Since then the appearance of the book trailer has changed considerably. The article examines specific examples and highlights methods that establish the relationship between the content of the book and its representation in the book trailer. Although guidelines apply for the production of book trailers, such as constraints relating to time and content, there are no limitations for the imagination of the producers. A book trailer may be simple, supported only by music and pictures, but they may also be as complex as short films. Additionally, book trailers are not limited to the promotion of one specific genre or age group. Depending on the viral potential of social networks such as YouTube, Facebook, and Tumblr book trailers reach a global audience and, therefore, open up new markets. It can be argued, while book trailers have not yet reached the realm of the everyday, they will gradually come to the attention of academics and this article wants to present a starting point for this development.

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Widjono, Rani Aryani, Gita Winata, and Naomi Haswanto. "PENERAPAN INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEM DESIGN (ISD) PADA PEMETAAN DAN VISUALISASI INFORMASI TEKNIK DASAR PEMBUATAN KERAMIK." Ultimart: Jurnal Komunikasi Visual 12, no. 2 (2020): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.31937/ultimart.v12i2.1441.

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   Ceramics Handmade in Jakarta currently has become a new hype. With hand- made ceramics people having a direct connection with the makers by how those things made. Techniques, materials, and the process are the reasons why people are more attracted to get involved by making their ceramics by themselves. The hype caused high demand of ceramic basic techniques information, but people barely find ceramic books or other types of media which commissioned and developed by the actual condition of Indonesia’s independent ceramics studio especially Jakarta. This study structured through Instructional System Design (ISD) by two main cores. The first is to formulate a mapping method to classify the information of ceramics techniques at a different level. The intention is to gather specific information for beginners that would apply on instructional media. The second is designing a media such as conventional books and virtual information video through the augmented book. The result construct augmented book with systematically measurable information. It provides people easy access information and offered a new learning experience by using the augmented book.   

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Nelson, Rose. "Demand Driven Access for Print Books in Academic Libraries—A Colorado Model." Charleston Advisor 18, no. 1 (2016): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.1.40.

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Kelly, Madeline. "A Review of "Getting Started with Demand-Driven Acquisitions for E-Books"." Journal of Web Librarianship 10, no. 2 (2016): 138–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2016.1159168.

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Besen, Stanley M., and Sheila Nataraj Kirby. "Library Demand for E-books and E-book Pricing: An Economic Analysis." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 45, no. 2 (2014): 128–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jsp.45.2.002.

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