Digital texts have for decades been a challenge for reading research, creating a range of
questions about reading and a need for new theories and concepts. In this paper, we focus …

Climate change has become a major area of concern over the past few years and
consequently many governments, international bodies, businesses, and institutions are …

This paper presents the results of a large scale survey designed to investigate usage
patterns and library patron attitudes toward e-books. The survey reveals a university …

This paper focuses on changing reading characteristics and presents a study among a
group of expert readers. Considering technological bases of reading and applying corporeal …

Purpose–This study, a part of JISC‐funded UK National E‐Books Observatory, aims to find
out about the perspective of students and academics, the main e‐book users, on e‐books …

Objectives: The purpose of the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) electronic book (e-
book) study was to assess use, and factors affecting use, of e-books by all patron groups of …

Academic libraries are choosing to purchase electronic books (e-books) rather than print
more frequently for multiple reasons. Unfortunately, e-books are not being used as much as …

The purpose of this study was to investigate students' awareness, usage and attitude
towards e-books at the Zhejiang University in China. The research design was quantitative …

Purpose–This study aims to investigate the use of a popular portable e‐reader device, the
Kindle 2, among library and information science (LIS) students and its effects on individual …

FEAtURE very identity. Understandably, academic librarians have been keen to get a
handle on this phenomenon with the potential to remake the library so fundamentally, even …