Adoption of E-Book Readers among College Students: A Survey.
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...
| Published in: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 108 - 129 |
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| Format: | questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Library Association
Sep2011
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | 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. |
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