Benefits of Paper Still Outweigh E-books

Universities should be prime real estate for the expanding e-book market, but for the most part students are clinging to the traditional book form. Yet despite an increasing number of consumers hopping on the bandwagon—with Amazon selling more e-books than printed books and the e-book market at the brink of breaking $1 billion in revenue—students don’t seem to be convinced.

Serious students approach reading effectively as a vandal. With the bare minimum of a pencil in hand (some even carry an armory of color-coded highlighters, Post-it pads and paper clips), they deface the page in conversation with the text, underlining, highlighting