ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) recently concluded its survey to test the use of digital scholarly monographs for research purposes on various handheld reading devices, such as Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader, and Apple's iPhone.
HEB has just published the detailed results of this survey and an overview of the process of converting titles for handhelds, including costs, in a new whitepaper.
Right now it appears that respondents are not using eBook devices and tablets often for academic reading. It would be worthwhile to keep an eye on this trend after the iPad has been on the market longer and electronic textbooks become more advanced. For example, the NOOK Study is new product that integrates eTextbooks and BlackBoard. This tool is not customized for tablets or eBook readers at this point (only desktops and laptops), but products like this will likely be available for mobile devices in the future.
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