A new report from the UK, JISC national e-books observatory project: Key findings and recommendations (PDF link, 1.2Mb)…

“Behavioural evidence from the Observatory project strongly suggests that [university] course text e-books are currently used for quick fact extraction and brief viewing rather than for continuous reading, which may conflict with the assumptions about their use made by publishers (and authors). They are being used as though they are encyclopedias or dictionaries rather than extended continuous text.”