Purdue e-Pubs. Abstract This article reviews the responses from the second ebrary informal survey of students concerning their experiences with information resources, which was conducted in September and early October of Cover Page Note ebrary, a ProQuest business, sponsored the and Global Student E-book Surveys along with many other industry surveys in a continual effort to understand the progressive e-book usage, trends, and needs of students, faculty, and librarians.
Included in Library and Information Science Commons. Search Enter search terms:. Purdue University. Among its findings: that students' e-book usage has not increased significantly in the past 3 years.
That's contrary to other reports about consumers using e-books. Part of the answer lies in the fact that the books they need -- textbooks at least -- are not always available in digital format. Even if some titles are available, many students opt to buy all their books at the same time from the same location whether that retailer is online or a traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore or a textbook rental company.
As different e-readers and e-reader apps have access to different catalogs, there isn't really a seamless shopping experience for digital textbooks. It's not as though students aren't interested in e-books. According to the eBrary survey, "the vast majority of students would choose electronic over print if it were available and if better tools along with fewer restrictions were offered.
Despite some of the improvements to note-taking in textbook apps like Inkling and Kno , it's still not quite as easy to mark up a digital text as it is a printed one. And oftentimes the content in these books is "locked down," so students can't share their notes or share their books with another.
That sharing aspect is important. Students want to be able to utilize social media as they do their reading and research, and according to those surveyed by eBrary, they want their textbooks integrated with social tools. Again, many apps are recognizing the importance of social reading , whether it's shared highlighting via the Kindle or a dedicated e-reader or via a Web-based tool like Highlighter. But students also share their textbooks because they are so incredibly expensive.
The top five reasons for using ebooks were; environment, anytime, anywhere access, searching, sharing and storage. The obvious one to watch is sharing. With the exception of anytime, anywhere access these reasons were the lowest scorers against print books and were joined here by information currency.
When looking specifically at ebook features students top four scores were searching, anytime access, off campus access, multi user access and ability to download to a laptop. Students obvious seek portability but when interacting with the information they want laptop functionality. This would indicate that it is unlikely that students would not use the current ebook readers which are one dimensional and in the case of the Sony, read only.
In this environment these are clearly seen as barriers to use.
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