Ebrary Survey on Use of E-books by Students

Link to June 25 PW Online post, "Survey Shows Increasing Use of E-Books As Research Tool Among Students".

Excerpt:
The survey was completed by almost 6,500 students at around 400 institutions across the globe. While the survey does indicate some skepticism and ignorance about e-books in institutional libraries, it also clearly shows that students are increasingly using e-books and other digital reference sources for research and other assignments.

The results of Ebrary’s survey are, in some cases, surprising, especially in terms of how frequently students do use e-books, and also confirm what the publishing industry already knows: that tech-savvy readers (like engineering students) are the most likely early adopters, and more e-book titles published means more e-book readers.

40-page survey report is available here.

Of the 6,492 respondents,
2707 are from Italy
2143 from the US
529 from Hong Kong
511 from Canada.
(That's 90% of the total.)

As for the major fields of study represented:
1983 Engineering
525 Architecture
501 Computer and information science
439 Business