The Impact(s) of Information Technologies on Book Publishing in Iranian Publishers’ views
<strong>Purpose</strong>: The aim of the present study is to survey the views of Iranian publishers about the impact(s) of modern information technologies on different aspects of book publishing and the resulted developments and changes. <strong>Methodology</strong>: Survey...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi
2016-12-01
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| Series: | کتابداری و اطلاعرسانی |
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| Online Access: | http://lis.aqr-libjournal.ir/article_48538_3a0b4de5e62de2e2be016829a46a6134.pdf |
| Summary: | <strong>Purpose</strong>: The aim of the present study is to survey the views of Iranian publishers about the impact(s) of modern information technologies on different aspects of book publishing and the resulted developments and changes.
<strong>Methodology</strong>: Survey quantitative method was preferred for this research and a Likert-type questionnaire was used for data gathering through which publishers’ views were evaluated in five levels..Data set included 500 active publishers selected by purposeful sampling method for whom the questionnaires were sent. Finally, the data analysis was carried out using 380 completed returned questionnaires using SPSS software. One sample t test and Friedman test were used for comparative analysis of the resulted data.
<strong>Findings:</strong> The findings indicated that about 97% of publishers had access to the Internet, and 60.8% had websites and 53.2% used online stores. Also, 32.1% subscribed to Facebook, 31.6% to Telegram and 30.3% to Instagram. About 66% of the publishers positively confirmed the impact of information technologies on book publishing processes with an average of 3.9. However, in regards with details of dimensions (levels), <em>the impact of information technologies on the total process of book publishing</em>, gained the highest score with an average of 3.9.
Conclusions:
Since the p-value was less than 0.05 in all study levels in the t-test, it could be assumed that there was a significant and positive difference between the test value amount, i.e. 3, and the society Mean, indicating existence of a positive tendency in responses to the survey questions among the respondents. The general process of publishing stands on the highest level of taking effect, but standing after the factor “distribution and sell” on the fifth rank shows that the publishers had some problems in distributing and selling their books and fewer changes is observable in them. |
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| ISSN: | 1680-9637 2676-5977 |