Adoption of E-Book Readers Among College Students: A Survey

By Nancy M. Foasberg. 2011

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To learn whether e-book readers have become widely popular among college students, this study surveys students at one large, urban, four-year public college. The survey asked whether the students owned e-book readers and if so, how often they used them and for what purposes. Thus far, uptake is slow; a very small proportion of students use e-readers. These students use them primarily for leisure reading and continue to rely on print for much of their reading. Students reported that price is the greatest barrier to e-reader adoption and had little interest in borrowing e-reader compatible e-books from the library.

Subfields: Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Marketing

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• Electronic versus traditional print textbooks: A comparison study on the influence of university students' learning (2013, background): “…that students find digital textbook formats to be generally usable but not convenient due to lack of availability in mobile formats and restricted linear navigation inherent in the majority of older versions of mobile e-reader devices (Foasberg, 2011; Reynolds, 2011; Sheppard et al., 2008).”