E-books: In the shadow of print

Abstract

The e-book has gained a large number of readers in many countries. However, the growth rate, as well as the market penetration of e-books, varies considerably between countries and language areas. In the United States and other English-speaking countries, the use of e-books is more widespread than in many European countries, such as Sweden. In both the United States and Swedish markets, the growth rate has slowed down during the latest 2 years, and the majority of readers still seem to prefer printed books. This article aims to reveal the relationship between attitudes and use of e-books and to contextualize this in relation to socio-demographic background, library use and reading habits. The results, based on national, representative surveys in Sweden during 2013 and 2014, show that people’s attitudes are a significant and important factor for the choice of e-books instead of print, but this is probably a two-way relationship. It is also evident that e-books serve a complementary rather than displacement function in relation to print.

Effect of gender, social influence, and emotional factors in usage of e-Books by Generation Z in Indonesia

“…The results of this study show that gender will influence the intention to use e-books. The results of this study are the same from Bergström and Höglund (2018) and Leitao et al (2018) revealed that gender can also be a determining factor in the choice of using printed or electronic books like women prefer reading and buying printed books when compared to electronic books or men are considered more familiar and accustomed to the use of technology when compared to women. Men are easier to adopt new technology than women (Ong and Lai, 2006; Daramola, 2013; Pratama, 2020) but in the research conduct by Smeda, Shiratudin and Wong (2017) show that female more confident in the use of the e-book.…”

“…An ebook format is an option, if you want to focus, then the printed book. Bergström and Höglund (2018) show that electronic books provide complementary functions not substitute functions of books. Research conducted by Wijayanta et al (2017) shows that with the use of e-books such as BSE in Indonesia, the average learning outcomes are better than those who do not use e-books.…”

“…Many studies have focused on gender as one of the determinants of user acceptance towards e-Books. Research from Bergström and Höglund (2018) and Leitao, et. all (2018) revealed that gender could also be a determining factor in the choice of using printed books or electronic books.…”

Streaming media

“…Burkey, 2013;Have & Pedersen, 2015;Rubery, 2011;Th ompson, 2012;Wallin & Nolin, 2020). Whereas adoption of e-books has been slow (Bergström & Höglund, 2020), subscription-based audiobook services off er a reading experience that represent a shift in how and when books are read (Wallin & Nolin, 2020). Th is could imply a continued growth for book streaming services.…”

Competition between Physical and Electronic Content Retailers

“…Even for the younger generation, at least half of consumers had not read e-books. Thus, consumers still purchase both traditional paper books and e-books, depending on preferences, situations, and places (see, for instance, Bergström and Höglund (2020) for the recent trend in e-books in Sweden). We can see such co-existence of physical and digital content in the games, movies, and music industries.…”