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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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Czech Electronic Book Market – Obstacles and Opportunities
Šperková, Lucie ; Koubský, Petr (advisor) ; Brodský, Jiří (referee)
This master dissertation "Czech Electronic Book Market -- Obstacles and Opportunities" analyzes Czech market with e-books. The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current situation on the market in terms of technologies, distribution models and legal issues. It describes commercial, free and illegal sources in the market, including a description of digitisation projects in Czech libraries. The thesis also includes a theoretical introduction to e-books and their development in the past. Details are discussed, focusing on technology, modern electronic readers with electronic ink. For comparison, the thesis also analyzes the U.S. market with e-books. In analytical part the individual portals with e-books on the market, their supply and user interfaces are compared. The real example analyzes the costs of an e-book and its comparison to costs of a printed book. At the end of the thesis, alternative models of distribution requirements for establishment of a new portal with e-books are characterised, the Creative Commons licenses are described and the current trend of e-journals is mentioned. Finally, I suggest recommendations especially for sellers on the Czech market describe the advantages and disadvantages of e-books in terms of individual roles in the distribution model and estimate the future market development. More detailed information related to the comparison of different types of electronic ink, a list of electronic readers that are available on the Czech e-book market at this time and specific examples of various users' interfaces that are being used on Czech e-books portals can be found in Appendix.
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Electronic publications
Cahlík, Ondřej ; Bruckner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Burkoň, Lukáš (referee)
This thesis focuses on electronic publications for e-book readers. In its first part it aims at actual questions, current situation and expected trend in the field of electronic publishing, tablets and e-book readers based on e-ink technology. The other part of thesis is practical and focused on detailed conception and realization of the project for publishing student periodical publications -- Studentský list and Economix -- electronically at the University of Economics, Prague.
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