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Selling used books online
Baslová, Jitka ; Nováček, Libor (advisor) ; Boudová, Lucie (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe selling and buying used books online. This thesis includes analysis of book listing services, where everyone can buy, sell or exchange used books online. These web portals are more common outside of Czech Republic. There is also described practice of online auctions sites (such as Aukro or eBay) that are also often used for trading books. This thesis also includes description of traditional auctions, which are in some way operating online as well. In Czech Republic online antiquarian bookstores are the most common way of buying books. This thesis describes development and current practice of Czech antiquarian bookstores. Part of this thesis include libraries' practice with selling and purchasing used books, as libraries are significant producers and often even buyers of used books. This part includes original research among several libraries.
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E-book piracy on the internet
Bradaričová, Johana ; Nováček, Libor (advisor) ; Šubrta, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with problems of e-book piracy. It describes e-book development and tries to answer the question why e-books began to be favourite item to pirate. Then it deals with laws, with which government tries to stop piracy and with action of copyright owners, with which they tries to prevent and stop piracy.
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E-book readers market in the Czech Republic
Brabec, Jan ; Nováček, Libor (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jan (referee)
Barchelor thesis "Market of ebook readers in the Czech Republic" maps and describes the most interesting and best selling ebook readers on the Czech market. It provides technical specification of leading brands, their sales data and prices. This thesis focuses on ebook readers which are not available on the market any more. Furthermore, it describes electronic paper, its evolution and different technological processing. The last chapter presents results of lending ebook readers to the public in three selected Czech libraries.
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Internet search engines, with emphasis on their technical development and business operation
Nováček, Libor ; Papík, Richard (advisor) ; Očko, Petr (referee)
Tématem práce jsou internetové vyhledávače, zejména vyhledávače operující v prostředí volně indexovatelného WWW. Nejprve je přiblížena struktura internetových vyhledávacích systémů. Dále jsou rozebrány jejich jednotlivé části, zvláštní pozornost je věnována zejména crawleru. Hlouběji se práce věnuje také způsobům řazení výsledků a jejich možnému ovlivňování. V další části práce jsou pak popsány hlavní zahraniční a domácí vyhledávače a to nejen vyhledávající v prostoru www. Důraz je kladen na okolnosti jejich vzniku, použité technologie a jejich financování. Pozornost je věnována též osobám zakladatelů.
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