The statistic above presents preferences regarding book types used in academic work by U.S. students and academic staff, broken down by their area of study or research. Over a half of the surveyed business and law students stated they preferred e-books to print books while doing their academic work.
When doing your academic work, do you generally prefer print books or e-books?
University of California students and academical staff only
Supplementary notes
The survey was conducted at the University of Califonia only and for this reason its results may not be representative.
Arts and humanities: n = 203 Business and law: n = 57 Life and health sciences: n = 527 Physical sciences and engineering: n = 372 Social sciences: n = 179
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