PW points to an eBrary survey showing that e-books use has expanded. As expected, e-books score high for convenience; print books, for trustworthiness.
Meanwhile guess what? 1,983 of the 6,492 respondents were engineering students. No wonder the surveyed students use online goodies as often, and maybe more so, than the p-books for research purposes!
This is still a valuable survey for marketer, a must-read. Just please consider its limitations, with just 111 English majors participating, compared to 525 architecture students. 2,143 of the respondents were from the U.S. and 2,707 from Italy. In other words, just two countries dominate the results. Click on the graphic for a clearer view.
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I was an English major, and I used ebooks extensively for my studies in the last two years of my B.A. degree. They were cheaper — if not free, being the public domain — and often times I found myself liking them better than the paper version my prof had selected. (That was especially the case with Johann von Goethe’s “Faust.”)
So make that 112 English majors. 😉
All the best,
H.
Well, Heather, regardless of major, the TeleBlog draws above-average readers. 🙂 Those stats in the survey are quite a comment on the bridge between science and the humanities, eh? Let’s hope that more English majors catch up with you. Hey, the protagonist of The Solomon Scandals is an E major—and I don’t mean “electronic.” Thanks for writing in! David