E-books and Readers’ Advisory

E-books versus print books: Readers' choices and preferences across contexts

With electronic book (e-book) sales and readership rising, are e-books positioned to replace print books? This study examines the preference for e-books and print books in the contexts of reading purpose, reading situation, and contextual variables such as age, gender, education level, race/ethnicity, income, community type, and Internet use. In addition, this study aims to identify factors tha...

Intertemporal Price Discrimination with Complementary Products: E-Books and E-Readers

Firms jointly sell durable primary hardware and complementary software in many industries, but it remains unclear how they can coordinate the two products to conduct intertemporal price discrimination (IPD). In addition to the harvesting (i.e., pricecutting over time) incentive in the traditional single-product IPD literature, firms selling complementary products have another investing (i.e., p...

E-readers and e-paper.

e-Readers and LaTeX

2011 has seen many e-readers arrive on store shelves; a new generation of “touch screen” devices that include the Nook Simple Touch, Kobo eReader Touch, and a higher resolution iRiver Story HD. They all have the capability of loading user created content, so the question arises: how well can they support my legacy documents? The answer just might be, surprisingly well. After we understand the c...

Ebooks vs. Print Books: Readers’ Choices and Preferences Across Contexts

With electronic book (ebook) sales and readership rising, are ebooks positioned to replace print books? This study examines the preference for ebooks and print books in the contexts of reading purpose, reading situation, and contextual variables such as age, gender, education level, race/ethnicity, income, community type, and Internet use. Additionally, this study aims to identify factors that ...