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  BSIG survey says college students prefer paper textbooks

  2476 readersFrom the press release: Despite their fondness for social networking and cell phones, most college students say they prefer textbooks in printed rather than e-text form. Nearly 75% of students to recently respond to a major new research survey from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) said they prefer printed texts, citing a fondness for

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  Tablet ownership triples among college students, says new survey

  1603 readers From The Chronicle of Higher Education: The number of college students who say they own tablets has more than tripled since a survey taken last year, according to new poll results released today. The Pearson Foundation sponsored the second-annual survey, which asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about their

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  Majority of U.S. Students Prefer Digital Textbooks

  682 readers Some 58% of U.S. students prefer digital textbooks to print because they’re easier to carry and they are believed to be cheaper than print textbooks, according to a new study from e-textbook publisher Bookboon.com. That said, many students don’t buy textbooks altogether, according to the study, because they are “too expensive” and many students are frustrated

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  Students Still Not Taking to E-Textbooks, New Data Show

  139 readers Despite the benefits of lower costs, lighter backpacks, added features and convenience, students just aren’t taking to e-textbooks, a new study shows. About 6% of students are using a “core digital textbook” as their main course material, according to a new study from the Book Industry Study Group, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of four-year

• Students Warming to E-Textbooks, New Report Says

  607 readers [Press Release] Student Response to Digital Textbooks Climbs, says New BISG Research More students are using the digital format… and are harder to satisfy The popularity of digital textbooks may have hit a tipping point in 2012 as preference by college students climbed significantly, according to new research from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s ongoing study of

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  Kno Study Finds Students Prefer Digital To Print

  768 readersDigital textbook publishing company  Kno released the results of a study this week in which they revealed that 95% of students find the Kno app very useful and will use it again. Obviously since the company did the survey about themselves for their product, it should be taken with a grain of salt. But there are some

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  E-Textbook Use Down Among College Students

  1884 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Fewer college students bought and used e-textbooks in the 2011 academic year than in the year prior, according to a new report. While about 6% of the textbooks students bought for courses in the 2010 academic year were digital books, only 3% were digital in 2011, according to

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  Digital and Higher Education

  1601 readersA study sponsored by the Pearson Foundation for Harris Interactive surveyed 1,214 college students and 200 high-school seniors heading to college.  More than two-thirds of them showed overwhelming interest in tablet devices, and believed that tablets would transform higher education. Interestingly, this same pro-tablet group largely did not own tablets: Only 7 percent of college

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  Hire-a-Pirate takes aim at high cost textbooks – unlocks rented digital textbooks

  1695 readers From Geekosystem: …  With some students hoping to beat the high cost textbooks by renting digital versions of textbooks, a group called the Library Pirates say they can unlock rental books and plan to distribute them online for free. Here’s how the scheme, called Hire-a-Pirate, works. A student, or a group of students, rents a textbook from

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  College Students Willing To Give Up Sex To Avoid Lugging Books

  843 readersAccording to a new study from education software company Kno, American college students dislike lugging school books around so much that 73% of them are willing to give up sex in order to avoid having to carry books. The survey, which was conducted by Kelton Research, found that 71% of college students want to go digital,