Document Type : Research َ Article
Authors
1 PhD Candidate, Konwledge and Information Science, Tehran University
2 MA, Knowledge and Information Science, Ministry of Culture & Islamic Guidance
Abstract
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Aim: This paper aims to design affected factors that motivate Iranian publishers for publishing ebook such as customers, goals, accessibility. Moreover, factors that assignee final cost is known.
Methods: Survey research method was used and data was collected by a supervised, paper-based questionnaire. Content analysis was used for open questions.
Findings: Findings show that customer needs is most important factors. Besides, public people and students are main customers based on education and younger are the main basically age. Main six parts for funding based on publishers attitude included: producing cost of text and multimedia, software, hardware, equipment, dissemination and marketing, and after sales services.
Conclusion: Request on ebook publishing is more that before but needs and interest of users should be researched. Affected factors on final cost of ebook are similar to p-book, only such factors are replaced. Storage cost, volume, and paper and print is changed with active content such as animation, searchabilitiy, motion picture and etc.
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